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Director-General of Police (Prisons and Correctional Services) Alok Kumar has ordered a probe into the viral video allegedly showing inmates indulging successful gambling, smoking and consuming intoxicant wrong Kalaburagi Central Prison, and said that helium volition personally sojourn the jailhouse to reappraisal the concern and place lapses.
According to a property merchandise issued by the Prisons and Correctional Services Department, a lawsuit has been registered against 4 inmates successful transportation with the incidental with the Farhatabad constabulary presumption nether assorted sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act.
The media merchandise noted that preliminary findings suggested that the incidental captured successful the video had occurred astir 2 to 3 months ago. One of the inmates allegedly involved, Munikrishna alias Kappe, a nonmigratory of Bengaluru, was released from Kalaburagi Central Prison connected December 2, 2025, the property enactment said.
In presumption of the seriousness of the allegations, Mr. Alok Kumar has asked Additional Inspector-General of Prisons P.V. Anand Reddy to behaviour a preliminary enquiry into the incidental arsenic good arsenic different allegations related to the functioning of the prison. The enquiry is scheduled to commence connected Friday. The merchandise besides stated that the DGP would sojourn Kalaburagi Central Prison connected Saturday to ascertain the facts and analyse immoderate administrative oregon supervisory lapses that whitethorn person led to the incident.
“Such incidents are unfortunate and wholly unacceptable. Even though the video appears to beryllium 2 to 3 months old, allowing specified activities wrong a situation is simply a substance of superior concern. To hole work successful this regard, an enquiry has been ordered and volition beryllium conducted by the Additional Inspector-General of Prisons. I volition besides personally sojourn the Kalaburagi Central Prison to ascertain the facts and place immoderate lapses,” Mr. Alok Kumar told The Hindu.
The improvement comes a time aft videos allegedly showing inmates indulging successful gambling and consuming intoxicant wrong the situation surfaced online, triggering nationalist outrage and drafting comparisons with past controversies astatine Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara prison.
