Six life convicts from Cherlapally Central Prison escaped from the prisoners' ward in the Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda, where they were shifted recently for treatment for mental sickness, on Friday.
Five of the escaped convicts were serving jail term in murder cases while the sixth in rape case.
Afroz, 32, Giridhar Singh, 33, Ramulu, 32, Yadagiri, 35, Laxmaiah, 30, all held guilty in murder case and Narsimha, 32, rape case convict, were shifted to the Institute on different dates.
They managed to break the small iron bars of the ward's ventilator and crawled out. There were 30 prisoners in the ward and guards of City Armed Reserve were guarding it from a distance.
Insider role?
The guards noticed around 5.30 a.m. that the six prisoners had escaped and alerted the institute authorities.
It was dark before 5.30 a.m. and if the prisoners jumped from the ventilator, they should have landed on the drainage beneath. Somehow, they managed to land safely on a side.
“Moreover, they left their prisoner uniforms at the open place adjacent to Erragadda Rythu Bazar and apparently fled after wearing civilian clothes. This raises suspicions of someone helping them by supplying clothes,” the police said.
The CAR guards' post is located at a distance from the prisoners' ward and they apparently failed to notice what the ward's inmates were doing, S.R. Nagar Inspector, P. Krishna Murthy, said.
He felt some persons helped the convicts escape from the ward but they were yet to be identified.
The prison authorities said the convicts were sent to the institute for check-up.
“If treatment was not required, the doctors would treat them as out-patients and send back to the prison. The hospital committee admitted them to the prisoners' ward,” they maintained.
Five of the escaped convicts were serving jail term in murder cases while the sixth in rape case.
Afroz, 32, Giridhar Singh, 33, Ramulu, 32, Yadagiri, 35, Laxmaiah, 30, all held guilty in murder case and Narsimha, 32, rape case convict, were shifted to the Institute on different dates.
They managed to break the small iron bars of the ward's ventilator and crawled out. There were 30 prisoners in the ward and guards of City Armed Reserve were guarding it from a distance.
Insider role?
The guards noticed around 5.30 a.m. that the six prisoners had escaped and alerted the institute authorities.
It was dark before 5.30 a.m. and if the prisoners jumped from the ventilator, they should have landed on the drainage beneath. Somehow, they managed to land safely on a side.
“Moreover, they left their prisoner uniforms at the open place adjacent to Erragadda Rythu Bazar and apparently fled after wearing civilian clothes. This raises suspicions of someone helping them by supplying clothes,” the police said.
The CAR guards' post is located at a distance from the prisoners' ward and they apparently failed to notice what the ward's inmates were doing, S.R. Nagar Inspector, P. Krishna Murthy, said.
He felt some persons helped the convicts escape from the ward but they were yet to be identified.
The prison authorities said the convicts were sent to the institute for check-up.
“If treatment was not required, the doctors would treat them as out-patients and send back to the prison. The hospital committee admitted them to the prisoners' ward,” they maintained.
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