"All allegations by the jail inmates are incorrect. These are convicted people involved in heinous crimes. We wanted to break the gang (they had formed) so we shifted them to a high security prison," Kumar told reporters here.
Prisoners Amit and Nishant had told a city court Tuesday that jail authorities provided them with knife and pistol to kill CWG officials.
According to jail authorities, the duo was shifted from jail number 4 to the high security ward of jail number 3 to break the gang they had formed.
"They weren't happy with the idea and told the court that they were asked to kill the CWG officials," a police officer said.
Three former CWG officials -- Sanjay Mahendroo, T.S. Darbari and M. Jayachandran -- are presently in Tihar jail for their alleged involvement in the October 2009 Queen's Baton Relay scam.
Published 22 December 2010, 06:19 IST