{"id":236,"date":"2004-02-09T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/09\/questionable-developments-in-jailbre"},"modified":"2004-02-09T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:47:11","slug":"questionable-developments-in-jailbreak-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/09\/questionable-developments-in-jailbreak-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Questionable Developments in Jailbreak Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a117'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The recent news on the Jan. 22 Burail jailbreak and the police investigations raises even more questions:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The main police officer, Charan Singh, whose testimony implicated senior police officers in the jailbreak, mysteriously <A href=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=75447\">died of a heart attack<\/A> in police detention.&nbsp; Now, his testimony cannot be used in court.<\/FONT><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The police have <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/483145.cms\">closed the jail<\/A> and all of its inmates to visitors, following the death of Charan Singh.<\/FONT><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The police have recovered a pistol, allegedly based on a statement made by the accused mastermind Narain Singh, and have charged him under the Arms Act.<\/FONT><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The police have effectively given up on finding the escapees, withdrawing nine policemen from the case. <\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Our post from <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/05#a107\">Feb. 5<\/A> discusses fears of torture of Narain Singh.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news on the Jan. 22 Burail jailbreak and the police investigations raises even more questions: The main police officer, Charan Singh, whose testimony implicated senior police officers in the jailbreak, mysteriously died of a heart attack in police detention.&nbsp; Now, his testimony cannot be used in court. The police have closed the jail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}