Ropar jail warden arrested for supplying drugs inside jail

PATIALA: A jail warden of Ropar Jail has been arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to jail inmates inside the jail premises. The jail officials claimed to have recovered narcotic tablets that were being carried away by a jail inmate.
The accused jail warden has been identified as Mandeep Singh, who according to the officials was placed under suspension immediately after his arrest while the higher authorities have been requested for his dismissal. The jail officials claimed that the accused had also refused to undergo dope test while another accused – a jail inmate identified as Sukhvir Singh was found intoxicated in his dope test reports.
The officials revealed that the narcotic tablets were recovered from an inmate who was asked to carry the cylinders from a jail store on a ‘Rehri’ inside the jail but when frisked on the way to the kitchen he was nabbed with narcotic tablets.
Jail Superintendent Jaswant Singh Thind said, “We used to keep cylinders in a store and on Sunday an inmate was asked to carry a cylinder on a ‘Rehri’ towards the kitchen. The inmate Sukhvir Singh had hidden around 10 narcotic tablets near the chain of the Rehri. He was frisked by assistant jail superintendents Prabhjot Singh and Chaman Lal along with Pesco employee Rajinder Singh and tablets were recovered. On questioning how he managed to get these tablets inside jail, the accused prisoner revealed that the jail warden had ordered him to bring these tablets near another barrack where he was supposed to supply to other inmates. Mandeep Singh was immediately arrested and then suspended while a case against both the accused is registered at Ropar city police station under sections of NDPS Act and Prisons Act. The accused Sukhvir Singh is convicted for 20 years in a murder case and was near completion of his jail term.”