The trouble had broken out in the jail when Gudda, a gangster lodged there, learnt that he and some of his accomplices, including Azharuddin, would be shifted to Dum Dum

Central jail. He and his aides then tried to agitate near the jail gate following which the jail authorities locked the inmates in their wards.

Azharuddin, who received head injuries, was administered two stitches on the forehead, but his condition worsened and he later died in the jail hospital. His father, Mohammad Fakruddin, who came to know about his son’s death the next day, lodged complaints with Hastings Police Station and the State Human Rights Commission.

Jehangir died at the SSKM Hospital on September 21, where he was shifted from jail hospital a day earlier after his condition deteriorated.