Overview

• The assault occurred on the evening of September 30 inside the Lucknow district jail hospital during an altercation with an inmate on cleaning duty.
• The attacker was identified by officials as Vishwas, also reported as Biswas, with the jail superintendent linking the dispute to a request for water.
• Accounts differ on the object used, with the superintendent citing an iron stick and the prison chief saying it was the sliding part of a cupboard.
• Prajapati sustained cuts to the head, received treatment in the jail hospital, was sent to KGMU, and is now reported healthy.
• Authorities are interrogating the accused inmate and preparing a police complaint, as Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav seeks a judicial inquiry and Prajapati’s wife visited the hospital.