1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY: NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR Criminal Writ Petition No.597 of 2010 [All under Trial Prisoners from Central Jail, Nagpur Vs. State of Mah. & two others] Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Petition is received by Post. Mr. T.A. Mirza, APP for respondents. ----- CORAM : A.H. JOSHI AND A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATE : 15th December, 2010. 1. This is a Letter-Petition purportedly signed by large number of prisoners, making grievances in relation to jail administration and complaints against Shri Nimje, the Officer in Jail. 2. We thought it proper that the mater should be looked into by the Deputy Inspector General of Prisons [East Region], Nagpur. We accordingly directed the Deputy Inspector General of Prisons to look into the matter, enquire into the facts and furnish his report. 3. The Deputy Inspector General of Prisons [East Region], Nagpur, has conducted enquiry and furnished the report. The report accompanies 2 statements of various prisoners named as petitioners. The substance of the report, inter alia, is as follows:- [a] Many of the signatories were not in jail on the date of purported signatures. [b] Many of the signatures are of the persons who do not sign, are illiterate and put thumb impressions. [c] Many of the signatures do not tally with the signatures of the persons named. [d] The prisoners have complimented working of Mr. Nimje and there are no grievances in that regard. 4. We see no reasons to disagree with the contents of the report submitted by Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, particularly in the background that a collective complaint where names of the persons, who are not in jail, are included and signatories, who do not sign, are shown to have signed. This creates a doubt about the truthfulness of the complaint. Moreover, the matter has been looked into. 5. Learned APP further assures that in the event of a genuine complaint in future, the matter will be looked into. 3 6. In view of these findings and observations, we dispose of the petition. Judge Judge |Hedau|