ORDER

1. Heard Mr. Sodhi, learned counsel appearing for the appellant and Mr. Subba Rao, the learned counsel for the respondent-State of Delhi. This writ petition has been presented by the petitioner Murti Devi for appropriate compensation for the death of an undertrial prisoner Raj Kumar who while kept in judicial custody in Tihar Jail had been seriously assaulted inside the jail and on account of injuries suffered by him died after being admitted in a Delhi hospital. Initially, the jail authorities made an attempt to assert that the said undertrial prisoner Raj Kumar was a drug addict and presumably as a consequence of withdrawal symptoms had suffered some injuries and also on account of an old injury in kidney, he had died. Such case of the jail authorities had been demonstrated to be false by the post-mortem report indicating that there were no such withdrawal symptoms and the doctor who held post-mortem examination had noticed a number of injuries on the person of the deceased. It appears that later on the jail authorities came up with a case that the said undertrial prisoner was assaulted by some of the convicts in the jail for which a criminal case has been initiated against