By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The State government is likely order an inquiry into the GNLA chairman Champion R Sangma’s lawyer Sujit Dey’s alleged attempt to bribe some staff including the jailor of the Shillong district jail.
“I would examine the matter in the coming days and if need be I may order an independent inquiry into it,” Minister of Home (Jail) Prof RC Laloo said here on Sunday.
After being briefed by DG (Prison) Kulbir Krishan on the matter about three weeks back, he said he had immediately directed the DG to conduct a thorough inquiry into alleged bribing of jail staff by Champion’s lawyer.
“In fact, he (Krishan) has already submitted his report to the Principal Secretary Home (Jail),” Prof Laloo said.
Alleging that Champion’s lawyer had bribed the jail staff including the Jailor, Krishan on Saturday had said, “I have specific inputs that the lawyer had given money to the jailor Felicita Wahlang for giving special treatment to Champion inside the jail. Besides the jailor, some other jail staff was also bribed.”
According to the DG (Prisons), the situation was almost like that of Fullmoon Dhar running parallel jail administration inside the Shillong district jail. “Luckily, I was able to detect this illegal activities on time or else there could have been another jailbreak”, Krishan had said.
While informing that he has ordered an inquiry into the matter, Krishan said, “The GNLA chairman was leading a lavish life inside the jail. Besides wearing expensive clothes, he (Champion) was smoking Goldflake king size cigarettes.”
Meanwhile, a report on how cash, cigarettes and other things reached Champion, who is currently in judicial custody at the High Security Ward (HSW) of the Shillong District Jail, was sent to the Principal Secretary Home (Jail) Hector Marwein on September 21.
Marwein later handed over the report to the State Chief Secretary WMS Pariat for necessary action.
It may be mentioned that Dhar, the mastermind of the infamous jail break of May 31, 2009, had escaped from jail along with six others after cash, liquor and weapons were made available to him in the jail.