Hookah party: DIG submits report, official found guilty

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 22

The probe into the alleged liquor and hookah party in Central Jail, a video of which had gone viral, has found the block in-charge guilty of negligence while on duty. The probe was conducted by DIG (Prisons) Surinder Singh Saini.

Along with the block in-charge the involvement of other jail officials was also under scanner. ADGP (Prisons) Parveen Kumar Sinha has asked the Ludhiana police to bring all gangster on production warrant and interrogate them to know how they managed to get the banned articles such as hookah, LED, music system and liquor inside the prison.

The ADGP Sinha said, “The DIG has submitted his probe report to me and suggested action against the block in-charge. There is no role of Jail Superintendent in the incident. I have asked the Ludhiana Commissionerate to question all accused on production warrant and question them about the role of jail officials. Let the police submit the report. Further action will be taken on the basis of report submitted by DIG (Prisons) and on the report of the Ludhiana Police”.

ACP (East) Davinder Chaudhary said all accused will be brought on production warrant on Monday. “We will find out if there is any involvement of jail officials in it. If yes, then they will also be booked and accordingly the report will be submitted to the senior authorities of the jail,” the ACP added.