1. Dagshai jail was built by the Britishers as a No-Escape jail. No prisoner could ever escape from here.

2. This jail was built at a cost of Rs 72,873 in Dagshai cantonment in 1849.

3. Robert Napier, a decorated British army officer, oversaw the design and construction of the jail.

4. Built in a T-shape, the jail has 54 cells and is designed in a way that cuts most light and air.

5. All cells have high ceilings and low floorings so that any movement by prisoners would easily be heard by the guards.

Over the years, Dagshai Jail gained notorious reputation for being a hell for inmates.  

6. To ‘discipline’ the prisoners, they were given ‘Bread and Water’ punishment.

A prisoner was made to stand still in a small gap between the cell door and the outer iron grills and given only bread & water.

7. Prisoners were tortured in T&P or 'Torture and Punishment' cells.

8.  James Daly, a private from the 1st battalion of Connaught Rangers, was executed here.

9. Even Mahatma Gandhi had spent a night in a cell here to show his solidarity with the Irish freedom movement.

10. The last known prisoner of this jail was Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse.