One more prisoner of Jhalod jailbreak nabbed, Rs 1.90 lakh reward declared

Dahod

One of the 10 prisoners who escaped after the sensational jailbreak in Jhalod town of Dahod district yesterday was nabbed today while the Director General of Police P C Thakur announced a total of Rs 1 lakh 90 thousand reward (ranging from Rs 5000 to 25 thousand) for information regarding the remaining nine.

Dahod SP M A Chavda said that one more prisoner Durgesh Pargi resident of Vadvas Fatepura has been nabbed. He was an accused of section 376 of the IPC (rape).

Different teams have been made to re-arrest the remaining nine undertrials including the four accused of murder who fled from the sub jail. They had also taken a rifle snatched from a guard with them, the SP said adding that the DGP visited the jail today and announced a reward ranging from Rs 5000 to 25000 for information regarding the prisoners who had fled. Two mobile numbers for the purpose were also announced. Four of the prisoners are from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.

The whole matter was being looked in to and appropriate action including suspension of responsible prison guards would take place if the need be, he said.

Altogether 11 prisoners had fled from the sub jail of this tribal dominant district but one of them Prakash Khant, another rape accused, who got himself injured in the course of escape was nabbed soon after.

One of the prisoners feigned chest pain and when one of the guards opened the barrack number one of the jail in which other ten prisoners were also lodged, they attacked him and fled.

A complaint under charges of negligence of duty against four prison guards has also been lodged.

– DeshGujarat