BeyondHeadlines Special Correspondent
PUNE: Sharif Shaikh, father of deceased prisoner Inayat Sharif Shaikh (27), one of the six suspects in the kidnap-murder case of catering contractor Dalaram Rathod, has alleged that his son was given poison and killed in cold blood by the Yerawada Central Jail authorities in connivance with the police.
Sharif made serious allegations against the jail officials and said “the jail authorities and police are ruthless when it comes to Muslim criminals. In my son’s case they gave him poison and murdered him. Killing Muslim prisoners by secretly giving them poison has been a favorite modus operandi by the Yerawada jail authorities,” he alleged.
Inayat Sharif Shaikh (27), was one of the six suspects in the kidnap-murder case of catering contractor Dalaram Rathod, who died under mysterious circumstances on Friday. Shaikh was lodged in the Yerawada central prison since June 10 and was being taken to Sassoon General Hospital amid heavy police bandobast on Friday morning after he had complained of chest pain and uneasiness.
“Inayat vomited in the vehicle on the way to the hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival by the doctors. The reason behind his death will be ascertained only after the post mortem,” said senior inspector of Yerawada police station Sanjay Patil.
Inayat Shaikh was arrested on May 28 along with three others in connection with the kidnap and murder of Dalaram Rathod from Bibvewadi. The four were in police custody till June 10 and were later shifted to the Yerawada Central prison. Sharif further said that he was angry at the manner in which his son was eliminated by the officials by resorting to crude methods of execution which is against the constitution of the country. “Actually the killing of under trial in most brutal fashion in form of giving them poison is the new form of encounter killing taking place in a highly cosmopolitan city like Pune,” he added.
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