By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 23 Feb 2015: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was Monday urged to order inquiry into the 19th Feb incident wherein German Bakery blast convict Himayat Baig was allegedly assaulted inside the high-security Yerwada central jail in Pune. Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has also demanded the government to order the jail authorities to provide security to Baig.
“An impartial Enquiry should be instituted to investigate in to the Himayat Baig Attack case…An F.I.R. under section 307 and other appropriate provisions of the laws should be lodged immediately against the Jail Inmates, Jail superintendent/officials and the ATS personnel who were responsible for the security of Himayat Baig…The jail authorities should be ordered to take immediate and necessary steps for the safety and security of Himayat Baig,” demanded Abu Bakr Sabbaq of APCR in his complaint letter to the Maharashtra CM today.
According to media reports, Baig, who has been convicted in the German Bakery blast case by a trial court, was assaulted by some inmates inside the Yerwada jail.
Another accused in the same case, Qateel Siddiqui, was killed by two inmates in the same jail in June 2012.
“We strongly feel that this is a planned attempt to murder like mysterious murder of Qateel Siddiqui, an Indian citizen who was in judicial custody. It should be noted that Maharashtra ATS remanded him to interrogate into Garman Bakery Bomb Blast case but no charge sheet was filed against him,” APCR official who is also a law intern at Delhi High Court said.
