Two wardens of Delhi’s Rohini jail have been arrested for allegedly extorting jail inmates, particularly undertrials, and their families for months in exchange for providing basic amenities, concessions and certain special services, said police deployed with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Delhi.
ACB officials said a special team went to the Rohini jail posing as the inmate’s family members on February 10 and the duo were held red-handed while accepting the bribe. (Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times file photo for representation)
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The accused— identified as Dinesh Dabas and Pankaj Kumar — had been working at the jail for around three years. The families were being asked to pay between ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh for the provision of basic amenities to the inmate, such as a clean cell or food on time, said a senior officer at the jail.
“The wardens tried to make more money by offering phones to inmates and exemption from certain duties such as washroom cleaning along with other services,” the officer added.
The situation came to light after the families filed anonymous complaints with ACB about being threatened for a long time, said jail officials. One of the families approached the police as well as ACB in February.
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ACB officials said a special team went to the Rohini jail posing as the inmate’s family members on February 10 and the duo were held red-handed while accepting the bribe.
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ACB officials said a special team went to the Rohini jail posing as the inmate’s family members on February 10 and the duo were held red-handed while accepting the bribe.
Jignasa Sinha is a Special Correspondent at Hindustan Times in New Delhi. With more than six years of reporting experience, she covers crime and policing in the national capital. Her beats also include Delhi prisons, the Delhi Fire Services and Delhi courts, while she regularly reports on gender, labour and social justice. Over the course of her career, Jignasa has reported on major criminal investigations, international crime syndicates, high-profile cyber fraud cases, law-and-order developments, protests, disasters and public institutions. Her reporting combines breaking news with in-depth, long form, human interest stories that examine the human impact of public policy, policing and the criminal justice system. In addition to reporting for the newspaper, she contributes to the Hindustan Times website and app, and plays an active role in coordinating on-ground coverage of major developments and breaking news across Delhi. Before joining Hindustan Times, Jignasa worked at The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, where she spent five years covering crime, Delhi airport, courts and health. She began her journalism career as an intern at an AI magazine in Bengaluru while pursuing her postgraduate diploma in multimedia journalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media.
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