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Bengaluru Prison DIG Somashekhar Detained Over Fake Supreme Court Order Case
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News18•05-10-2026, 17:13
Bengaluru Prison DIG Somashekhar Detained Over Fake Supreme Court Order Case
- •Prison DIG Somashekhar has been taken into police custody by Parappana Agrahara police for intense interrogation regarding a fake Supreme Court order case.
- •The case dates back to 2018 when a life convict named Shankar was illegally released from prison using fabricated Supreme Court documents.
- •Shankar was originally sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for a kidnapping and extortion case involving IPC sections 364A and 120B.
- •The fraud came to light after 8 years when a petition was received by the DG of Prisons, prompting an internal investigation that exposed the fake release order.
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Prison DIG Somashekhar was taken into police custody by the Parappana Agrahara police for intense interrogation regarding his role in the 2018 illegal release of a life convict using a fake Supreme Court order.
Shankar was released after prison authorities received a fraudulent letter claiming that the Supreme Court had issued a criminal appeal order for his release.
The scheme was exposed after an anonymous letter was sent to the Director General of the Prisons Department stating that Shankar had escaped using fake documents, which triggered an internal investigation that revealed no such release order existed.
