Death raises jail security poser

February 01, 2014 20:11

The death of an undertrial of Birsa Munda Central Jail has brought back the focus on security arrangements at the state's largest prison with his relatives claiming that he had been burnt by a fellow inmate and did not commit suicide as claimed by the authorities.

Mokhtar Alam,27, who was arrested and forwarded to judicial custody three months ago for allegedly setting his 22-year-old wife, Gulnar Parveen, on fire for dowry, was found with severe burns in the jail's bathroom on January 23.

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