Overview
- The shooting occurred during Raksha Bandhan celebrations on Wednesday when an undertrial prisoner fired a country-made pistol at guard Digvijay Singh Tomar and was apprehended on site.
- Tomar was hit in the upper back, doctors found a bullet lodged near the lower part of his lung, and he was referred from the Raisen district hospital to AIIMS Bhopal in a critical condition.
- The attacker is identified as Nilesh Thakur, also reported as Nilesh Singh, who faces earlier cases under sections for attempted murder and murder.
- The Madhya Pradesh Prisons Department suspended acting superintendent R K Choure and handed the case to IG-Prisons Sanjay Pandey after officials began reviewing CCTV and questioning staff and inmates.
- Investigators are examining claims that the pistol was smuggled inside festival baskets or thrown into the compound and are probing whether negligence or collusion by staff or outside contacts enabled the weapon's entry.