6 juveniles flee Hisar observation home

Tribune News Service

Hisar, June 12

The police have formed four teams to track down six juvenile undertrials who escaped from the observation home on the Barwala road in Hisar last night.

The juveniles escape by overpowering the security staff inside the observation home after they took a water camper to the barracks. Police sources said the inmates seemed to have planned their escape.

“When the security personnel entered barrack five with a water camper, three juveniles overpowered them. The juveniles freed three others who were lodged in two adjoining barracks,” said a police official.

They crossed two security tiers without any resistance before reaching the main gate. They attacked the security guard with an iron pipe and snatched the keys to make good their escape, the official said.

They injured three personnel inside the jail. They attacked an employee of the seed farm and snatched his motorcycle.

They tried to assault a car driver in an attempt to loot the vehicle. They seemed to have dispersed in separate directions after coming out of the observation home, the sources said.

Hisar DSP Sidharth Dhanda said prima facie, there seemed to be some security lapses inside the observation home.

“The security staff are not allowed to keep weapons inside the observation home. It was easy for the juveniles to overpower the staff on getting a chance,” he said.

He said three of the escapees belonged to Rohtak and one each from Bhiwani, Jhajjar and Jind districts. He said teams had been dispatched to some places to conduct raids to rearrest them.

He said two of them were facing multiple and serious charges and one of them had recently been shifted here from the Ambala observation home.

The police had included some other inmates and the jail staff in the investigation to establish laxity. A case was registered against the escapees.