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Journalism of Courage
MUMBAI, JAN 10: In what is the first incident of its kind, the superintendent of a jail has been forced to cool his heels as an inmate of the very jail he was in charge of.
Yogesh Desai, superintendent of the Adhariwadi Jail in Kalyan, who was caught in the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s dragnet, today found his bail application rejected by the court and will now have to put up in the same jail but in a different capacity.
Spending time in the chiller with him are jailer S Karkar and constbale, V Patil, also charged with corruption.
It all began when families of two inmates were told to pay up Rs 15,000 to the police, failing which they said jail authorities would continue to torture the inmates.
When this was conveyed by the inmates to a friend who was a regular visitor, the friend went and promptly reported the matter to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Thane, where he was given marked currency notes. A trap was laid and constable Patil was caught red-handed while accepting the money. His interrogation led the ACB to Desai whose house was raided and his telephone line cut off.
Desai who is the son of a senior Roha-based journalist, Rajabhau Desai, has always been thought of as an upright official. This incident has left copsand inmates baffled.
