Delhi: Tihar Jail officials claim injuries of ‘IS man’ self-inflicted

NEW DELHI: A day after ISIS operative lodged in Tihar alleged that he was thrashed and forced to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai,’ the jail authorities refuted the allegations stating that the injuries were self- inflicted.
A video of the operative identified as Rashid Zafar also went viral on social media. However, Tihar authorities denied such allegations and stated that he banged his head in the window after he returned from a medical check-up. A senior official also stated that Zafar even tried to enter another ward of the prison. A mobile phone has also been seized from his cell.
The accused was taken for a medical check-up when he tried to enter another ward. Zafar incidentally hit his head in the window and tried to harm himself. Zafar had allegedly recorded a video, which went viral on social media. In the video, Zafar stated that he was beaten up in the jail and forced to chant slogans.
The accused was arrested in 2018 on the allegations of being member of an ISIS-inspired group that were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians as also government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India. He was arrested along with nine others after National Investigation Agency carried out searches at six places in Jafrabad and Seelampur in Delhi, and 11 places in UP — six in Amroha, two in Lucknow, two in Hapur and two in Meerut.