Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury on their book ‘Black Warrant’

This interview was first published behind the paywall in November 2019.

Vikramaditya Motwane’s Netflix series has regenerated interest in Black Warrant: The Confessions of a Tihar Jailer – a book detailing former Tihar superintendent Sunil Gupta’s time at the prison and his encounters with infamous inmates.

In a conversation with Abhinandan Sekhri, Sunil and co-author and journalist Sunetra Choudhury spoke about Charles Sobhraj’s escape, police-prisoner dynamics, custodial deaths, and corruption in Tihar Jail. 

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