Reportedly, this meeting lasted several hours and it was reportedly held in the jail superintendent's office. | Photo Credit: BCCL

Key Highlights The woman allegedly stayed on inside the jail premises for an hour-long spells each over a period of four days Jail security guards allowed her to enter without checking her verified documents The fraud came to light only after the woman's name was informed to the NGO officials

New Delhi: Posing as a member of an NGO, a woman entered Tihar prison to meet her boyfriend and managed to fool the high-security jail officials for over four days. The meetings that she held with her suspected boyfriend lasted for over five hours in all over the spell of four days. Her repeated entries inside South Asia's largest jail - where long-stay inmates are only allowed to receive visitors twice a week for thirty minutes - has shocked everyone and put a huge question mark on the security system at the jail.

The woman allegedly visited the jail on four days and the jail security guards allowed her to enter without checking her antecedents. According to a report, the woman's boyfriend had been jailed in a murder case and he had befriended the woman on a matrimonial website in the past few months. He had posed as an employee of the Tihar jail. He had even managed to meet her when he was out on parole for a 26-day spell in July.

The man was identified as Hemant, who was lodged in jail number 2 and had promised marriage to the woman. Reportedly, the woman also has a daughter from her previous marriage.

The man had also opened a bank account in the Indian Bank branch within the jail premises and has named the woman as the nominee. When he returned from parole, the woman posed as an NGO member and sought to meet him within the jail premises. Reportedly, this meeting lasted several hours and it was held in the jail superintendent's office. No jail authority bothered to carry out a thorough check on the woman's identity before she was allowed entry in the high-security prison.

Meanwhile, the fraud came to light only after the woman's name was informed to the NGO officials. She had entered the jail premises on the pretext of distributing clothes to jail inmates. During one of her visits to the jail, the woman had even brought a child along with her to meet the inmate.

However, the spokesperson AIG Raj Kumar said that he had ordered a probe in the case after a complaint was lodged in this regard. Police are investigating the case and the jail officials who - even if unsuspectingly - allowed her to pull off the fraud will be thoroughly investigated.