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more-inMumbai: Senior Shiv Sena leader and MLC Neelam Gorhe on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the death of convict Manjula Govind Shette at the Byculla jail on Friday. Speaking to newspersons at the Sena office, Ms.
Gorhe claimed Shette was mercilessly beaten up over a trivial issue and demanded a judicial probe into her death and action against the culprits. Ms.
Gorhe said the assault appears to be premeditated, and wondered how her death can be recorded as ‘unnatural’. Shette died at the government-run JJ Hospital on Friday night after allegedly being beaten up by women prison guards. She was hit on the head with a stick and there were injury marks all over her body,” Ms.
Gorhe said, and demanded that jail officials involved be immediately arrested as their suspension is not enough..