An undertrial prisoner died inside Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Central Jail, prompting a police investigation into the circumstances of his death. The deceased was identified by Sandesh as Darshak Sojitra, who was being held in connection with a fraud case registered at the Infocity police station in Gandhinagar.
According to the report, Sojitra was found dead inside a barrack in New Jail Circle-2. The circumstances of the death have not been established, and the available report does not identify a confirmed medical cause. Police have begun investigating the incident after receiving information about the prisoner’s death.
Sojitra had been in custody since June 11, the report said. It also stated that he had met his father two days before he was found dead. The meeting has become part of the reported sequence of events surrounding the death, although there is no official confirmation in the supplied material that it was linked to what happened inside the jail.
The prisoner had been accused in a fraud case registered at Gandhinagar’s Infocity police station. As an undertrial, he had not been convicted in that case. The report does not provide details of the allegations, the stage of the court proceedings or the specific legal sections invoked against him.
The incident has placed attention on the responsibilities of prison authorities in monitoring the health and safety of people in custody. Sabarmati Central Jail is a high-security facility, and any death inside its premises requires the circumstances, medical history, supervision arrangements and response by jail officials to be examined through the appropriate investigative process.
Sandesh reported that the postmortem examination and CCTV footage from the jail may assist investigators in determining what happened. These materials could help establish the timeline before the death and whether any other person or event was involved. However, neither the cause of death nor any allegation of assault or custodial misconduct has been confirmed in the supplied report.
The report said police had launched an investigation, but it did not identify the investigating officer, provide a timeline for the postmortem findings or mention any official statement from the jail administration. The next confirmed steps are expected to include the postmortem process and examination of available CCTV footage as investigators work to establish the cause and circumstances of the death.
