MHA initiates departmental inquiry into former Tihar jail head Sandeep Goel

Before Goel’s transfer, alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar, an accused successful a Rs 200-crore extortion case, had accused him of allegedly taking wealth from him to guarantee his information successful prison.

An authoritative said the determination to suspend Goel was taken aft a study by a committee comprising main secretaries of the Delhi government’s home, instrumentality and vigilance departments noted “collusion” connected his portion with Jain, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate successful transportation with a wealth laundering lawsuit connected May 31, 2022.

A root said the MHA has present initiated a departmental enquiry and the location section is probing allegations arsenic to however Goel provided facilities to Jain, who was the jailhouse unit astatine the time, who was assigned to assistance Jain successful his barrack, who was assigned to him etc.

Queries sent to Goel did not elicit a response.

In the archetypal inquiry, video footage provided by the ED revealed that Goel spoke to Jain successful his compartment connected October 6 for astir 50 minutes (from 6.39 p.m. to 7.29 pm). “This reflects Goel was rather adjacent to Jain and exhibited his unbecoming behaviour astatine the outgo of decorum. Goel besides submitted his comments to the location section and had tried to task arsenic if thing was amiss successful jail. He besides tried to springiness colour to massage being done to Jain arsenic if it was his health/medical necessity. Departmental proceedings are besides recommended against him for lapses starring to preferential attraction to Jain,” the committee had found.

It besides recovered that alleged repeated introduction of Jain’s household members into the deodhi (checking area) of jailhouse nary 7 without immoderate competent authority’s bid was a blatant and superior usurpation of Delhi Prison Rules, 2018. “Deodhi is not a spot earmarked for the intent of mulakat of prisoners but is considered to beryllium a precise unafraid spot owing to inward and outward movements of inmates by jailhouse authorities. Therefore, strict subject has to beryllium maintained, different it poses a menace to jailhouse security. The information that this happened cannot beryllium without enactment of jailhouse administration, peculiarly jailhouse superintendent and DG (Prisons),” the committee further found.