lucknow uttar pradesh tends to show the inhuman face of human rights every now and then this time the venue is dasna district jail in ghaziabad district and the incident also involves barbaric cruelty to animalsto seek a confession jail officials twisted the necks of 100 odd white pigeons and killed them one after the other in front of an inmate chandraveer the ordeal started on may 14 and continued till may 18 having found a companion in some 120 birds chandraveer had fed and looked after them ever since he landed in the jail serving murder charges two years ago the gory act was perpetrated allegedly by jailor sc singh at the instance of jail superintendent rakesh kesarwani the peoples for animals pfa organisation has lodged a complaint with the chief judiacial magistrate ghaziabad against this on may 21 but the reason why the district official did this is even more shocking qamar an undertrial in this jail died in the barrack number 11 of this jail on may 2 the circumstances were mysterioius the authorities claimed that this murder accused had died of tuberclosis but the autopsy report conducted twice following the official claims established ligature injuries on his neck it turned out to be a clear case of strangulationsources reveal that he had died following the highhandedness of the jail officials the jail authorities in turn had to create a convincing alibi they started pressurising manoj another murder accused lodged in the same barrack when manoj refused he was badly beaten up by the officials he sustained severe head injuries and was rushed to the meerut medical collegethen chandraveer was targeted by the officials they beat him up and when he refused to relent they started killing his pet pigeons after the 100th bird was killed in front of chandraveer he agreed to make a confessional statement amounting to qamars murder in the meantime the ghaziabad district magistrate santosh yadav order an inquiry into the excesses in the jail on the complaint of manojs brotherthe information of the pigeon killings reached the pfa activist asheema sharma who started pursuing the case we have already lodged the complaint for lodging an fir the case is slated for hearing now says ambika shukla of pfa delhi talking to toi she said the organisation had sought an audience with the inmate chandraveer in order to get the details first hand the pfa collected most of the details from manoj and his brother diwanshu the court will take up the case on wednesday