Jailbreak bid thwarted, five prisoners caught

PK Jaiswar

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Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 23

The Amritsar Central Jail authorities foiled a jailbreak bid of five prisoners in the wee hours on Wednesday.

The prisoners have been identified as Joga Singh of Kale village, Balkar Singh, Prabhjit Singh, Jagjit Singh and Harjinder Singh, all residents of Harike in Tarn Taran.

According to information, the inmates took out four bricks to make a hole in the wall of their barrack. However, the jail staff got a tip-off and they thwarted their attempt to escape. Immediately, additional police personnel were deployed outside the barrack and security was strengthened in the jail.

During a search operation, the jail authorities seized a rope made of sheets and blankets, four bricks, a piece of iron grill and two sharpened spoons from their possession.

A case under Sections 224, 225-B, 427, 511 and 120-B of the IPC and Section 52 of the Prisons Act has been registered against them.

Jail Superintendent Arshdeep Singh said the prisoners were held following a specific input. On Wednesday morning, they were held from the barrack.

Three undertrials, identified as Gurpreet Singh, his brother Jarnail Singh, both residents of Khadoor Sahib, and Vishal of Majitha Road area, had escaped from the jail in the intervening night of February 1 and 2 this year.

They escaped after making a hole in the wall of their barrack by removing 10 bricks. Later, they scaled the inner 16-foot wall by standing one atop the other and then scaled the outer wall (around 22-foot high) by using a hook made of a steel bar and the cover of a quilt to make a ladder. Thereafter, they escaped from the jail complex from near tower no. 10, which was not under the CCTV cover.