This writ petition has been presented by the petitioner Murti Devi for appropriate companypensation for the death of an undertrial prisoner Raj Kumar who while kept in judicial custody in Tihar Jail had been seriously assaulted inside the jail and on account of injuries suffered by him died after being admitted in a Delhi hospital.
Initially, the jail authorities made an attempt to assert that the said undertrial prisoner Raj Kumar was a drug addict and presumably as a companysequence of withdrawal symptoms had suffered some injuries and also on account of an old injury in kidney, he had died.
Such case of the jail authorities had been demonstrated to be false by the post mortem report indicating that there were numbersuch withdrawal symptoms and the doctor who held post mortem examination had numbericed a number of injuries on the person of the deceased.
Heard Mr Sodhi, learned companynsel appearing for the appellant and Mr Subba Rao, the learned companynsel for the respondent State of Delhi.
