Six life convicts who were shifted recently for treatment for mental sickness in the Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda, has been escaped from the prisoners’ ward.
These six prisoners were serving in Cherlapally Central Prison, five were in murder cases while the sixth in rape case.
The name of these are Afroz, 32, Giridhar Singh, 33, Ramulu, 32, Yadagiri, 35, Laxmaiah, 30, all held guilty in murder case and Narsimha, 32, rape case convict, they all were shifted to the Institute on different dates.
However the information regarding prisoners escaping had been given to the institute authorities at around 5.30 a.m.
The estimation are made that they managed to break the small iron bars of the ward’s ventilator and to land safely on a side.
Although there were 30 prisoners in the ward and 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, reportedly said.
A source report said that the police felt some persons helped the convicts escape from the ward. “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 in a statement.
Asking about prisoner’s shifting, the prison authorities clarified, “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.”
