Vijay Palande, who is imprisoned in Thane Central jail since 2012, as Murder convict is giving a tough time to Maharashtra prisons authority and law enforcement agency by teaching inmates how to file Right to Information (RTI) requests to delay the beginning of their trials and find out loopholes in police investigations.
A senior officer of Maharashtra prisons said, “Palande is a crafty inmate. His hunger for knowledge related to his case is growing day-by-day. Now he is teaching trial-delaying tactics to his co-prisoners to defend themselves facing mandatory prison terms in most serious crimes like murder, rape, etc. A number of prisoners have started filing RTI requests to find out flaws in police investigations in their cases.”
After learning the methods from Palande, now the prisoners in Thane jail are sending RTI requests to know the case details of their inmates, and due to this, Palande has developed differences with the inmates, according to another officer of state prisons.
Pravin Dixit The former Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra, said, “Generally the undertrial inmates send a number of RTI requests to keep the investigating officers engaged in lengthy paper work so that they may not be able to file the charge-sheet within 90 days, failing which the prisoner will get bail and come out of judicial custody.”
