By IANS,
Lucknow : At least 17 people were injured when a group of prisoners at a district jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh town clashed with jail staff, police said Friday.
Amongst the injured were six officials of the jail. The prisoners were angry with the authorities for seizing mobile phones and SIM cards during raids recently and attacked the staff Friday morning.
“Angry over the raids, the prisoners assaulted several jail officials while they were carrying out a routine inspection at the prison,” a police official told reporters in Aligarh, about 300 km from Lucknow.
“The angry prisoners particularly targeted two deputy jailers – Dilip Kumar Pandey and R.K. Chaudhary – as they were mainly responsible for the recent raids conducted at the prison.”
The injured are being treated in a government hospital and are out of danger, he added.
Additional security has been deployed at the prison.