Bangladeshi woman prisoner tries to escape from Rajkot central jail, hospitalized as rope used for scaling wall breaks

Rajkot: A Bangladeshi woman prisoner of Rajkot central jail, nabbed four months ago for living illegally in India, tried an unsuccessful prison-break in the high securityl jail here and was caught in injured condition.

Police today said that Meena Saikh, who was nabbed around 4 months ago along with 2 other illegal Bangladeshi persons from Wankaner in neighbouring Morbi district, tried to escape from the central jail situated in Popatpara area here last night.

She somehow tied a rope with the upper side of the outer wall of the prison but while she was trying to scale the wall the rope broke and she fell down sustaining injuries in both legs. She was caught by the jail guards and has been admitted to the civil hospital here.

The jail authorities were investigating the matter and also trying to find out as to from where did she find a long rope for her failed attempt. Any possible involvement of jail guards in it is also being investigated.

DeshGujarat