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Ranchi jail officials suspended over video of dancing drunk inmates
The New Indian Express Kollam
|November 07, 2025
TWO jail officials were suspended after a video showing high-profile inmates partying inside Ranchi's Birsa Munda Central Jail went viral, sparking political outrage and demands for a judicial probe.
The suspensions of Assistant Jailor Devnath Ram and Jamadar Vinod Kumar Yadav were immediate. The footage, said to have been shot a few months ago, showed two inmates - Vidhu Gupta, accused in the liquor scam, and Vicky Bhalotia, accused in the GST scam - dancing in shorts and Tshirts to the beats of a Haryanvi song inside a special hall within the jail premises.
The video went viral online, raising concerns about the alleged nexus between influential inmates and corrupt prison staff inside Jharkhand's jails.
This story is from the November 07, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kollam.
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