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Burla, Nov 8: An undertrial prisoner lodged in Sambalpur circle jail and presently admitted to a hospital has appealed for mercy killing to the President of India.
Virat Singh (31), accused of kidnapping an eight-year old boy Rishabh Agarwal from Khetrajpur police station limits here March 18, 2010, was arrested after the incident.
Singh has forwarded his application through the jail superintendent to the President of India and has also marked copies to the Justices of the Supreme Court, Orissa High Court as well as the local sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM)’s court, district collector and superintendent of police. He said he sent the applications September 2 last month and is yet to receive a reply.
Singh claimed he is finding it hard to survive under the present circumstances and has prayed for mercy killing as he claimed that he was falsely implicated by police in the Rishabh kidnapping case. He also alleged that he is being denied proper medical care for the excruciating pain he is experiencing in his left leg. He even went on hunger strike demanding early hearing of his case.
Sources said Virat, a native of Ranchihatia under Jagannathpur police limits in Ranchi district of neighbouring Jharkhand, sustained critical injuries during a road mishap before being arrested with 13 others in the kidnapping case and was subsequently remanded to jail. He broke his left leg after which he was operated upon. An iron rod was inserted in his leg at a private hospital in Patna.
The operated leg however developed infections later and became septic following which he experienced severe pain. He was earlier treated for the ailment at Burla based-VSS Medical College and Hospital and at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack under police supervision.
He was readmitted to VSS September 17 after the pain refused to subside. Currently he is undergoing treatment at the orthopaedic ward of the hospital.
All the accused in the Rishabh kidnapping case managed to get bail while Singh failed to do so because of a series of cases lodged in his name.
When contacted, Prof Barsha Tudu treating him said Singh has high blood sugar for which he could not be re-operated upon. Treatment is being administered to control his sugar levels first, the doctor said.
