: Noted civil rights activists and legal experts have raised doubts over the claims of officials that P. Ramkumar, the lone suspect in the Infosys techie Swathi murder case, had committed suicide within the Puzhal jail premises on Sunday. ‘Gross negligence’“The incident is nothing but gross negligence on the part of prison authorities. ‘Prisons understaffed’V. Kannadasan, formerly Special Public Prosecutor in human rights courts, pointed to the insufficient number of warders in prisons across the State. “When a court gives an order to remand a person, it is the responsibility of the prison authorities to ensure his/her safety. If such an incident is said to have happened, the prison authorities are to be squarely blamed,” Mr. Chandru observed.

Source: The Hindu September 19, 2016 00:00 UTC