Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 18

A day after DGP, Prisons, PK Sinha and DIG, Prisons, Surinder Singh Saini visited Central Jail here to investigate the episode in which gangsters had shared the video of a hookah party in jail on Facebook, the Jail Department today wrote to the Police Department for action against the six inmates who were seen in the hookah party.

Production warrant

The police would bring all the accused on production warrant and probe will be done to enquire how hookah and other banned items reached the jail premises. Sources said if the police bring them on production warrant, the role of jail officials, if any, who might have provided banned items to the inmates, may also crop up. The ACP said on the basis of Jail Department letters, six accused were nominated.

As per the sources, on May 9, when the police recovered a hookah and tobacco sachets from jail barracks, they had registered a case against Neeraj only, but gangster Nikka Jatana and others were not booked.

Now after the video went viral and the ADGP visited the jail, six persons in the hookah party video have been identified by the Jail Department.

The five other identified accused are Manvinder Singh, alias Nikka Jatana, facing 16 criminal cases, Bharti Singh, Kewal Krishan, a member of the Rano Sarpanch smuggler gang of Khanna, Maninder Singh, undergoing 10-year jail term in a drug case, and a murder accused Parminder Singh. All these accused were seen in the video smoking hookah and enjoying Punjabi songs and reportedly having liquor as well.

Now the Ludhiana police are likely to nominate these accused in the already registered case and a section of the IT Act will also be added as the accused also shared the video on social media.

Meanwhile, Balkar Singh, Jail Superintendent, confirmed the development.