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Produce Indrani Mukerjea, court tells Mumbai jail

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Mumbai: A CBI Special Court on Tuesday ordered the Byculla Jail authorities to produce inmate Indrani Mukerjea before the court on Wednesday following a complaint of assault inside the prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday.

“We moved an application before Special Judge J.C. Jagdale citing injuries and bruise marks on Indrani’s body and head during the jail riots of June 24,” lawyer Gunjan Mangla told IANS.

In a related development, Mumbai NGO Jai Ho Foundation on Tuesday appealed to the Bombay High Court to order a probe by a specialised agency or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the jail violence.

In her application, Mukerjea has also claimed that she had been threatened with sexual assault in the jail and how she sustained injuries during the prison violence on Saturday which left a woman inmate dead.

Mangla said that in the application, she had pointed out how Mukerjea was under treatment for certain brain-related issues and wanted to know who would be held responsible if anything happened to her in jail.

The victim in the prison violence was a jail warden, Manjula Shetye — a 40-year-old prisoner serving the last few months of her 14-year jail term for murdering her sister-in-law in 1996 — who complained about some missing ration from the jail stock on Friday.

She was allegedly summoned by a woman jailor and beaten up brutally, according to witness statements recorded by police.

Shetye was rushed to the Sir J.J. Hospital nearby but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Upon learning of her death, the other prisoners resorted to violence in the jail on Saturday morning, attacking jailor and polic personnel and damaging the prison properties.

Transferred from Pune’s Yerawada Central Jail, Shetye was due to be released in a few months. She was made a jail warden for her good conduct and made in-charge of one of the barracks in the Byculla Jail.

Additional Director-General of Prisons B.K. Upadhyay immediately ordered a probe into the incident and suspended six jail staffers against whom there were allegations of misbehaviour.

Later, police lodged a complaint against many of the inmates, including Indrani Mukerjea, for rioting, violence and damage to property.

Meanwhile, Jai Ho Foundation has petitioned Bombay High Court Chief Justice Manjula Chellur to direct a CBI or any other specialised investigation into the killing of Shetye.

In a letter to Chief Justice Chellur, the NGO’s Women’s Cell President Advocate Nazneen Khatri demanded that the cases of rioting registered against 291 women prisoners should be quashed, witnesses must be shifted to other jails and compensation paid to the victim’s family.

Indrani Mukerjea is currently undergoing trial for the killing of her daughter, Sheena Bora, in April 2012, along with her husband and former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, and her another former husband Sanjeev Khanna.

Her former driver Shyamwar Rai, who was also one of the prime accused but later turned an approver, and was granted pardon by the Special Court.

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