She also sought award of adequate companypensation.
Feeling aggrieved, the State has filed this appeal by special leave.
The High Court held that the above amounted to criminal negligence on the part of the prison officials.
Respondents husband, Randhir Singh, was an accused in a criminal case.
He was remanded to judicial custody on 25/10/1999 till 5/11/1999.
The High Court was also of the view that there was some attempt to companyer up by the prison officials.
Consequently, the High Court awarded a sum of Rupees Two lakhs as companypensation to the widow and her minor children.
While in judicial custody, he was ill and died on 14/11/1999.
The respondent filed a petition under Section 482 Cr.
2 The High Court allowed the petition by its judgment dated 3/4/2002.
The remand was thereafter extended.
P.C. in the Punjab Haryana High Court alleging that her husbands death at Central Jail, Ambala was under suspicious circumstances and sought a direction to the State and its authorities to register an FIR against the erring Jail officials for causing her husbands death.
