Sources have told dna that the home department has sent the suspension file to Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Following uproar over convict Sajjad Mogul jumping parole, the Maharashtra Home Department on Thursday recommended suspension of then superintendent and acting DIG of Nashik jail, JS Naik for approving his parole and then recommending an extension.
Highly placed sources told dna that the suspension file has been sent by the home department to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for final signature.
Mogul who was serving a life sentence at Nashik Central Jail in the sensational Pallavi Purkayastha murder case of Mumbai went missing after he was out on parole in February. Naik, however, was already facing a departmental inquiry for unlawfully allowing furlough to two convicts serving term under terrorism-related charges. Both the convicts escaped during the furlough period.
As per law, a furlough is not allowed to convicts serving term for acts related to terrorism. What made the case worse is that the second convict, Ravi Dhiren Ghosh, was released on furlough for eight months, when the first convict released, Nuruddin Islam, was already on the run.
While Nuruddin, who was given furlough in June 2014, is still at large, Dhiren, who was let out on furlough in February 2016, surrendered in August, within a few days of the accused jailer's role coming under the scanner.
The matter came to the notice of the home department only when the National Investigation Agency (NIA), through a letter in June 2014, raised an alarm. The department then called for a report from the Nashik prison. In the last week of August, it recommended an inquiry against Naik and a clerk, who were prime facie found responsible.
Islam and Dhiren, along with four others, were convicted by a special NIA court in January 2014 under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) that defines printing and distribution of fake currency as a terror activity.
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