Prisoner injured after being attacked by two inmates at Pune’s Yerawada prison

Initial probe by officers from Yerawada police station suggests that Kharade and Shaikh asked Thorat when he was getting released from the prison. The minor incident led to a heated argument between the inmates. Kharade and Shaikh started beating up Thorat. In the attack, Thorat sustained injuries to his chest, ribs and nose. On-duty prison guards responded and stopped the fight. Thorat was rushed to the prison infirmary for treatment.

A probe was launched by officers from Yerawada police station, who have booked Kharade and Shaikh on charges of physical assault.

In June this year, an undertrial inmate at the Yerawada prison was attacked by three undertrial inmates who suspected that he provided information about them to members of a rival gang outside the prison. In February, at least a dozen undertrial inmates at the prison attacked an on-duty jailer who sustained injuries to his face and a fractured hand. In December last year, an undertrial inmate lodged at the prison was murdered by a group of four other inmates who fatally attacked him with a pair of scissors and a piece of metal hinge. Officials said that the attack was a fallout of a past rivalry.

Earlier this year a CCTV network comprising over 812 cameras installed inside the prison became functional.