Prisoners go on rampage in U.P. jail
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A jail head warder was injured after inmates, angered by the dying of a fellow prisoner, went on a rampage for over 4 hours contained in the premises of a jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district on Friday.
The inmates pelted stones and bricks, threatened arson with a gasoline cylinder and set a blanket on fireplace in the compound of the jail, stated a spokesperson of the State jail division.
Death of convict
The incident befell after the dying, allegedly because of sickness, of convicted prisoner Nagesh Mishra, who was serving life imprisonment for homicide.
Senior officers later reached the jail with heavy police power to convey the scenario underneath management and managed to get the prisoners again into their barracks “without any use of force” via cordial talks, stated the spokesperson. “The situation in the jail is fully under control now,” he stated.
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