Death In Patiala Prison To Be Examined

The unexpected death of a man under trial lodged in the Patiala jail has enough element of doubt to deserve a administrative investigation that jail minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur on May 03 asked the principal secretary of the home section to complete within a week.

On Thursday morning, the 27 year old Inderpal Singh was found dead in the Patiala Central Jail, and his parents had, afterward, cast uncertainty over the conditions of demise.

Accompanying orders by Phillaur, the deputy commissioner of the city also has forwarded order to a magisterial query that subdivisional magistrage (SDM) Gurpal Singh Chehal will lead.

Calling the repeated demises and aggression inside jails as ill-fated, Phillaur added that the Punjab administration had taken serious note of the issue.