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A major surveillance lapse has surfaced in Rajasthan’s open jail system after Dikshant Kamra, a convict serving a life sentence in Jaipur’s high-profile Dushyant Sharma murder case, travelled to Thailand for a five-day vacation while official prison records continued to register his daily attendance. Kamra, who was lodged at the open prison camp at Narsinghpur Barani in Sri Ganganagar, was abroad between October 9 and October 13, 2025, according to immigration stamps on his passport. Despite strict rules requiring inmates to report for roll call twice every day, his absence went unrecorded, triggering high-level departmental and police investigations into alleged insider collusion and administrative negligence.
Official Collusion and Fake Records Conceal Foreign Trip
The matter came to light after an individual filed a complaint highlighting the convict’s international travel and fraudulent attendance logs. Inquiries revealed that the open camp supervisor, warder Hapurama, allegedly concealed Kamra’s physical absence by submitting false information and staged photographs to senior authorities instead of alerting the department. Prison officials have noted that the fraudulent records prevented the administration from detecting the convict’s absence during his five days in Thailand.
Sri Ganganagar Jail Superintendent Mahaveer Meena stated that criminal proceedings are being initiated against both warder Hapurama and Kamra at the Ghamurwali police station. Director General of Prisons Ashok Rathore confirmed that an FIR is being registered and strict departmental action will be taken against personnel responsible for the lapse. Although Kamra was briefly moved to Bikaner jail after the matter came to light, he was subsequently transferred back to Sri Ganganagar in October.
Opium Seizure From Car and Unseized Passport Trigger Probes
The convict’s activities faced renewed scrutiny following the recent recovery of approximately 40 grams of opium from his car in Sri Ganganagar, leading to a separate case being registered at the Jawahar Nagar police station. Investigators are now probing the source of the contraband to establish whether an organized narcotics network is involved, while intensifying their review of his conduct and international movements during his sentence.
The investigation has also brought institutional oversights regarding his travel documents into focus. Kamra had obtained a passport in 2016 from his permanent address in Padampur, Sri Ganganagar. When Jhotwara police arrested him in 2018 for the murder of Dushyant Sharma, the passport was never confiscated. Regulatory and enforcement agencies failed to seize the document even after a trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2023, enabling him to use the active passport to exit the country in 2025 without triggering timely alerts to jail authorities.
Conviction in 2018 Honeytrap Murder Case Under Fresh Scrutiny
Kamra was originally convicted for his role in the May 2018 abduction and murder of Dushyant Sharma in Jaipur. According to police records, Kamra’s partner Priya Seth contacted Sharma through a dating application to clear financial debts. Seth, Kamra, and an associate named Lakshya Walia abducted Sharma and demanded a ransom of ₹10 lakh from his father. Despite receiving ₹3 lakh, the accused strangulated Sharma, disfigured his face with a knife to conceal his identity, stuffed the body into a suitcase, and dumped it in the Amer hills.
On November 24, 2023, a Jaipur court sentenced all three accused to life imprisonment. Legal counsel representing the victim’s family has announced plans to raise the latest administrative failures before the court, seeking strict accountability for officials involved. State authorities are now focusing their probe on how fraudulent attendance was maintained, the extent of official assistance provided for the foreign trip, and the institutional failure that left a convicted murderer with an unimpounded passport.
