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The Director General of Police (Jails) BK Upadhyaya has pressed for action against JS Naik, the then superintendent of Nashik Central Jail who had forwarded the parole application of Sajjad Mughal to Nashik’s divisional commissioner. Naik now faces suspension, transfer or departmental enquiry, to be decided on Thursday.
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The Deputy Inspector General of Police (Jails), Rajendra Dhamne, supervised a probe into the incident of Mughal jumping parole, when he was allowed to leave jail for 30 days to apparently visit his ailing mother. His family paid Rs 7000 to this end, and since the Mughal has not returned. Dhamne, in his report, said that Naik “did not apply his mind” while forwarding Mughal’s parole application.
Naik’s case has been further weakened by divisional commissioner Eknath Dawale’s statement to the authorities where he claims he only approved the parole application on the “recommendation” on Naik.
While the Nashik police authorities claim the Uri Police in Jammu & Kashmir okayed Mughal’s parole application, the latter completely denies receiving any such communication.
Additionally, this incident would not have occurred had the Maharashtra government accepted a reforms proposal sent by the prisons’ department according parole-granting rights to only DIG-rank officials.
The report has been forwarded to the Principal Secretary (Home), Vijay Satbir Singh. The Mumbai Crime Branch and Nashik Police have launched a search for him, while the Mumbai Police are waiting to appeal in the High Court seeking death penalty for Mughal’s crime, this week.
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