2 escape from Warangal jail

WARANGAL URBAN: A jailbreak at the Warangal Central Prison early on Saturday left prison authorities baffled. Authorities found out at about 4 am that two prisoners had used bed sheets to make a rope and scale the 12 feet inner wall and the 21 feet outer wall of the prison. The prisoners must have got the idea from the recent Bhopal jail break in which eight Simi undertrials executed a similar plan.

No one has ever escaped from the Warangal Central Prison. The outer wall of the prison was built only two years ago to ensure full security. Warangal range jail DIG Keshava Naidu said one of the escaped convicts is 27-year-old Rajesh Yadav, belonging to Jehanabad district of Bihar. He was convicted in a property offence and murder case. The other is Sainik Singh, from Meerut in UP. He was court martialled for stealing weapons. They were transferred to the Warangal prison from Cherlapalli prison on September 9.

Both the prisoners were lodged in the same cell in the high security barracks along with another prisoner. The two broke open the lock of the cell, used bed sheets to make a rope, and a rod as a hook, and escaped.

Jail superintendent K. Newton said some parts of the prison are not covered by CCTV cameras and even those that exist are not working. There is a live wire running along the outer wall. So prison officials are clueless about how the two managed to jump the wall.

Sources said that the prison’s floodlights were not working. An internal enquiry was launched to find out if any jail official had helped the prisoners. Warangal commissioner G. Sudheer Babu inspected the spot and the police set up teams to search for the two prisoners. Bus stations and railway stations are being kept under watch. The police in neighbouring districts have also been alerted.