Mumbai: Indrani Mukerjea on Wednesday narrated before a special CBI court how even the male officials of the Byculla women’s prison caned women inmates and threatened her against being a witness in the court. Sheena Bora murder case accused, who has been booked for rioting in the women’s prison in Mumbai along with other inmates, said she was hit on the hand and legs after which she could barely walk.
According to media reports, Indrani told the court that the jail superintendent threatened her for dire consequences. “She threatened me and told me ‘tu witness banne ja rahi hai…. tereko bhi dekh lenge,’” Indrani told the court according to the reports.
A 45-year-old woman prisoner Manju Govind Shette had died in the jail allegedly at the hands of jail officials after which the inmates protested against jail authorities.
Indrani was on Wednesday produced in court after she moved an application on Tuesday alleging that she was roughed up by jail officials. The special CBI court allowed Indrani Mukerjea to lodge complaint against prison officials.
Narrating the incident, Indrani told the court that she was threatened and assaulted after she said that she will give a statement (in connection with the case) to a magistrate under the provisions of section 164 CRPC, which unlike a police statement is admissible in court.
Indrani also said that she had witnessed the woman prisoner being allegedly assaulted. Indrani said that after a case was registered into Shette’s death, she came forward as a witness in the case, and told the jail officials that she is ready to become one.
Recalling the events on the day of the protest, she alleged that the superintendent had ordered a laticharge after turning the lights off in the jail.
