Gurgaon, February 26
Inmates, including a convict, of the District Jail at Nayagaon in Bhondsi, near here, clashed today in which eight of them were injured.

The development is a sad reflection of the administration of the jail. This is not the first time that a clash between the inmates has taken place.

According to official sources in the Civil Hospital, condition of seven of the injured is stable while one of the injured, Baleshwar, alias Ajay, a native of Muzzafarnagar (Uttar Pradesh), and an undertrial under Sections 459/460 of the IPC, has been referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. He has received injuries on his head.

The seven injured are Surender, native of village Badshaspur, Devender Singh, native of Shikohapur village, Imran, native of Badshapur and Ashok, native of Ramgarh (Sohna) — all in Gurgaon district, Amit, native of Bamni Khera (Faridabad), Arvind, alias Doctor, native of Muffafarnagar and Dinesh, a native of Ghaziabad (UP).

While Devender is a convict under Section 302 of the IPC serving seven years of sentence, the others are being tried for henious crimes like dacoity, murder and attempt to murder.

The official version is that the ones who clashed were part of two groups. Though the jail personnel are silent on the issue, it is learnt that while one group was known as “UP group”, the other was called “Gujjar group”.

The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Aggarwal, deplored the incident and said the law would take its own course in the matter and that the crime would compound to the criminal charges faced by the culprits.

However, no case was registered in this regard till the filing of this report. The Jail Superintendent, Mr Rai Singh, is reported to be on leave for few days. According to unofficial reports, the District and Sessions Judge, Mr S.D. Anand, visited the jail complex after the incident.