Seven undertrials escape from Farrukhabad jail

Kanpur:Seven undertrials, who had been brought from district jail of Farrukhabad to be produced before a local court on Friday, managed safe escape from the session court lock-up after removing the bricks of a toilet there.
An alert was sounded and all major entry and exit points across the district were sealed soon after the incident. A combing operation has also been started to locate the absconders.Later, one among the undertrial was nabbed by alert policemen.
Farrukhabad superintendent of police Rajesh Krishna said the police had already started conducting raids at the possible hideouts. He said appropriate action would be taken after verifying the conduct of jobs of the personnel concerned soon.
The undertrials identified as Rvai, Bheema, Anand Kumar Sharma, Vinod, Sunny Katheria, Bablu Katiyar and Neeraj were sent to session court lockup after being produced on Friday for separate cases.
The police team, which escorted the seven undertrials from district jail, handed all of them to the court’s lock-up after producing them in the court. Sources said that the formalities of all the seven undertrials were completed and soon they were to leave for the district jail.
Around 3.30 pm, constables Jaivendra Singh and Vijay Yadav noticed an undertrial Ravi, who was trying to flee from the hole of the wall of the toilet of the lock-up. Immediately they raised an alarm making police personnel alert. "The alarm of the constables prevented the escape of an undertrial Ravi," a senior policeman said.
SP Rajesh Krishna said, "The police has also started investigating into what the shortcomings were as far as security at the court was concerned." "Without insiders help one cannot escape in such a manner."