A Tihar Jail’s woman prisoner, has accused the warden of torturing her by making HIV positive women inmates assault her for extorting money from her.
In a plea to a Delhi court, Honey Sharma, lodged in Jail 6 for forgery and cheating, has also apprehended that she might have contracted AIDS.
Lodged in jail for over three months now and facing trial in 11 cases of cheating and forgery, Sharma, in her plea to chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav, alleged that she is being tortured by the head warden and jail warden for money.
Sharma’s two-year-old daughter also lives with her in the jail.
She told the court that the wardens “beat her up badly and got the AIDS patient to scratch her with their nails”.
She alleged that she was beaten up for an hour in front of the deputy superintendent and the jail staff who remained mute spectators. Her daughter was also manhandled by the warden and her pleas for being taken to the hospital were dismissed, she alleges.
Sharma, along with her husband Vipin Sharma and five other persons -- Sachin Sharma, Harshad Alam, Bhupender, Aman Alam -- are accused of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and under the Passport Act for running a racket of providing fake passports and visas in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.
Barring Honey Sharma, all were arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police after an FIR was lodged in 2009. Honey Sharma was declared a proclaimed offender and could be arrested only in January 2012.
They are involved in over 30 such cases and were also slapped with charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for running an organised crime syndicate.