Drugs? Weapons? Tihar's jailor reveals how inmates navigate daily life behind bars.
📹: Raj Shamani
📹: Raj Shamani
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00:00We will keep a blade in the nose, around the gums, in the hair.
00:06So does anyone get black, dark, without sunlight, any such punishment?
00:11No, not like that. This is only in movies.
00:13If a criminal is there, what is done to him inside?
00:16Now someone is in jail, what does he do from morning to evening?
00:19See, his daily routine is that we count his head at 6 in the morning.
00:25We analog him with the cell and first we will pray.
00:29Then we do yoga sessions for some people.
00:32We also do games for the young age for their physical activities.
00:36And then the people who go for court protection,
00:41who have daily dates, they go for court protection.
00:44And the rest of the people who are left, they stay in jail.
00:48And we keep them open in the open till about 11-11.30.
00:54And around 12 o'clock, we count their heads again and lock them up.
00:58And at 3 o'clock, we open them again.
01:00We count their heads again.
01:02We will open them at 3 o'clock and till 6-6.30, till sunlight,
01:07we will give them water, food, everything.
01:10And around 7 o'clock, we lock them up again.
01:15So how many types of criminals and cells are there in a jail?
01:21Like no one is allowed to see the sunlight,
01:25no one is allowed to close the cell.
01:27It happens outside, right?
01:32Like I told you, the high security criminals are different.
01:38Their limitations are a little more.
01:40And the rest are normal, routine ones.
01:43So I would say that hardly 5-7% are high security criminals.
01:50In your criminal activities, like TADA, Makoka,
01:55hardly 10% people are there.
01:57For them, we have to be a little extra visual.
02:00And the rest are normal.
02:02So does anyone get black, dark, without sunlight, any such punishment?
02:07No, it's not like that.
02:08This is only in films.
02:09And the TV is installed inside the jail and it is shown in movies,
02:13VIP treatment, does this happen?
02:16No, see the TV is an entertainment.
02:19And those who have a good track record in jail,
02:22who do not cause trouble in jail, live in discipline,
02:26and there is no such case on them outside.
02:29Like I told you, there is no TADA, there is no Makoka,
02:32there is no dacoity, there is no murder.
02:34So in those cases, we provide TV.
02:37There are many reasons behind this.
02:39The more we keep them busy, the more occupied we will keep them.
02:43All are criminals.
02:45So the empty mind is the house of the devil.
02:48So the more we keep them busy in activities,
02:51the calmer they remain.
02:53And it is also easy for us to run the jail.
02:55And this also does not come in things like depression.
02:57In jail, a lot of things are smuggled or not?
02:59Is it in Tihar?
03:00Yes, smuggling is also inside Tihar.
03:02And a lot of…
03:04What all smuggles are there?
03:06These are some drugs, drugs, in the body cavity.
03:11Like you see smuggling at airports,
03:13they will swallow it by putting it in polythene.
03:16And then either they vomit or excrete it.
03:19They take it out through the potty and then consume it.
03:22And there was an incident just now,
03:25we were talking about the phone.
03:27There is a Chinese model, it is such a big phone.
03:31This small?
03:32This small.
03:33Okay.
03:34It will only fit in your ear, it will be this small.
03:36Khechada something is a company.
03:38So there is a habitual offender.
03:42He has taken out 3-4 phones.
03:45And something went wrong inside.
03:48So we had to get him admitted.
03:50We took out the phone from his stomach
03:52after the surgery.
03:55We will keep the blade inside the nose.
03:57How will the blade come inside the nose?
03:59The surgical blade.
04:01Like many times when we go to the hospital,
04:04we steal from there.
04:06We will keep it inside the nose.
04:08We will keep the blade around the gums.
04:11We keep it in the hair.
04:13It will be very difficult to catch it.
04:15How will you get it inside the nose?
04:17There will be no guns, no knives.
04:19Blades, drugs, just this.
04:22Phone.
04:23Nothing else.
04:25His thoughts were here and his needs were also here.