A week after the death of Ram Singh,the prime accused in the Delhi gang rape case, the Director-General of Tihar, Vimla Mehra, on Monday met with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at the Delhi Secretariat on the issue of the new management system that is being planned for the high-security Tihar. Mehra is preparing a ‘blueprint’ to improve overall functioning of the prison including a plan to plug loopholes in its surveillance system. According high-placed sources in the Delhi Secretariat, Mehra presented a blue print of the security arrangement at Tihar, especially the number if CCTV that should be installed within the prison.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had described Singh’s suicide as a ‘major security lapse’, and had directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to write a letter to the Delhi government on the same. In her presentation to the Chief Minister, Mehra is said to have detailed the security measures that will be adopted at Tihar.
‘Mehra told the Chief Minister that she was working on a blueprint to streamline the internal functioning and plug the loopholes in the existing system,’ sources said, adding, that the Tihar Director General indicated to Dikshit that a slew of of measures including modern surveillance system would be part of her recommendations. The prison houses around 12,500 inmates, though it has a capacity for approximately 6,250.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had described Singh’s suicide as a ‘major security lapse’, and had directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to write a letter to the Delhi government on the same. In her presentation to the Chief Minister, Mehra is said to have detailed the security measures that will be adopted at Tihar.
‘Mehra told the Chief Minister that she was working on a blueprint to streamline the internal functioning and plug the loopholes in the existing system,’ sources said, adding, that the Tihar Director General indicated to Dikshit that a slew of of measures including modern surveillance system would be part of her recommendations. The prison houses around 12,500 inmates, though it has a capacity for approximately 6,250.