Tihar Jail authorities form QRTs

New Delhi: A day after the prisons department suspended eight Tihar Jail staff members in connection with the fatal stabbing of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya, officials on Saturday said they have formed quick response teams (QRTs) to deal with such incidents in future.

A senior jail official said the siren, which is used to intimate the security staff in emergency, was not working when Tajpuriya was killed. It is being checked why the siren was not working, he added.

The official said the QRTs will comprise Delhi prison staff, along with the personnel of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

“These teams will be deployed at the high-risk wards in order to react on time and handle the situation before it escalates if any scuffle or fight breaks out between the inmates,” the official said.

Tajpuriya was killed early Tuesday allegedly by four members of the rival Gogi gang Deepak alias Titar, Yogesh alias Tunda, Rajesh, and Riyaz Khan who stabbed him “92 times”.

The four have been shifted to four different jails in Mandoli, Tihar and Rohini, the official said.

On Friday, a senior prisons department official said they conducted a departmental inquiry based on which eight staff members were suspended. “We had a meeting with officials of the Tamil Nadu Special Police and they have also agreed to take departmental action against their personnel,” the official said.