New Delhi: An inmate of Tihar Jail died on Friday following a scuffle with other inmates inside the prison, officials said.
The deceased has been identified as Srikant alias Appu, they said.
A senior jail official said that one inmate got injured in a scuffle with some other inmates in jail number 2 on Friday. He was referred to Safdarjung Hospital where he was declared brought dead.
He was jailed in 2015 and was involved in a case of murder and other cases of theft etc, the official added.
In a similar event, three prisoners, including a member of BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari's gang, were shot dead inside the Chitrakoot district jail today.
The three inmates gunned down in the district jail at Ragauli were identified by police as Anshu Dixit, Merazuddin alias Meraj Ali and Mukeem Kala, belonging to Sitapur, Ghazipur and Shamli, respectively, in Uttar Pradesh.
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