Hyderabad: Juvenile escapes from observational home

Hyderabad: Another minor escaped from Saidabad's juvenile observational home on Thursday night, and in exactly the same manner that two batches of children had slipped through earlier.

The police is still searching for the minors who had escaped previously, and the latest escape comes as a shocker as security was supposed to have been tightened at the home.

After the first group of kids had escaped in May, the authorities had suspended the supervisor, the warden and the superintendent. No precautionary measures were taken and a second escape of kids occurred in August.

Since that incident, security has been upgraded at the home and CCTV cameras. That, however, didn't stop the minor who escaped on Thursday night. The boy scaled the wall and escaped from the premises, said Saidabad inspector N. Mohan Rao.

The home houses 66 boys, out of which 17 were reported missing on August 27. "We checked their names and informed the Juvenile Justice Board and police stations from where the boys were sent here," Mr Mohan Rao said.

Saidabad police traced the boys three weeks after they fled. Another 17 boys escaped on August 27 of whom some have been picked up.

“‘This is the pure negligence by the management of the observational home,” said the  Saidabad inspector K. Sattaiah.

“We had asked them to increase the length of compound wall and also to install CC cameras. Though the cameras were placed after the pressure from the police and the authorities, the compound walls height remained the same, from where the boys jumped earlier and ít was through the same place the 17-year-old escaped,”
he said.

In May, the boys had allegedly hotwired and stolen a parked two-wheeler in  aresidential area near the observation home that belonged to one Ramulu, a village revenue official.