ROPAR – The self-styled Shiv Sena Leader Nishant Sharma, who was serving a four-year imprisonment in a fraud case was attacked by at least five jail inmates with a sharp-edged weapon on Tuesday morning, police said.
Nishant Sharma, the Shiv Sena (Hindu) leader, was lodged in Rupnagar sub-jail here.
SSP Swapan Sharma said investigations were underway and it was being ascertained how attackers broke open the barrack where Nishant Sharma was lodged. IG (Prisons) V Neerja along with the SSP visited the jail.
After the incident, Nishant Sharma was taken to the hospital for treatment and then brought back to jail, police said.
He was awarded four years of imprisonment by a Ropar court in a fraud case on Monday, police said.
Nishant Sharma was booked in 2011 by Kurali police on the complaint of Hisar resident Anil Kumar who had alleged that he duped him of Rs 1.50 lakh.
The jail authorities have claimed that Sharma received minor injuries and was soon discharged post the treatment. He was also later shifted to the Pathankot jail.