•Just minutes before the incident, jailer B S Mankar left the premises, accompanied with his wife, without taking any prior permission from his superiors.

• Sahu has deposed that although he headed the guards, he was not handed the charge of the armoury. He claimed he hasn’t even been trained to fire a rifle while adding that rifles at the armoury weren’t even tested after last year’s monsoon season. Security guards on duty that day were not trained to fire weapons.

•Assistant Jailer R R Rai said that when Mankar was on leave he was asked to prepare a list of suspected Naxal inmates so that they could be transferred to the Central jail. However, when Mankar returned from leave, he refused to forward the list.

The report has indicted several top police and administration officers:

•DIG (Prisons ) P D Verma: Did not follow guidelines with regard to transfer of Naxalite prisoners to the high-security Central jails. Besides he failed to act on numerous complaints against jailer B S Mankar. He also didn’t prepare a roster for inspection of state prisons, which included several inspections of Dantewara jail.

•District Collector K R Pisda: Failed to inspect the jail every month as provided under Section 82 of the jail rules. Only one such inspection was carried out by him during the last one and a half years. He did recommend additional security for the jail but failed to ensure that the directive was complied with.

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