The Delhi Police have sent several teams to the adjoining areas of the Capital in search of wanted criminal Vikram alias Paras, who managed to escape from police custody after sedating four constables on board a train while being brought back from Bhatinda on Wednesday.
The four policemen, who were suspended for dereliction of duty, have not been discharged from the hospital they were taken to after they were found unconscious or dazed.
Paras (27)-- who is an accused in around 100 cases related to murder, extortion and other heinous crimes --also managed to decamp with the police personnel’s MP5 sub-machine guns along with 15 live cartridges.
Around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, a passerby informed the police regarding a policeman lying unconscious in the parking space of Old Delhi railway station which led to a police team finding the other three.
Identified as head constable Dinesh and constables Mir Singh, Ajay and Ramesh, all posted in the third battalion of the Delhi Police had taken Paras to Bhatinda on 22 December, where he was produced before a court on the next day and then produced in another court in Punjab on 24 December.
For their return journey, the five boarded a train at around 2 p.m. on Tuesday from Bhatinda railway station. They were scheduled to arrive at Old Delhi Railway Station in the next 12 hours.
A senior police officer said that the cops had bought two bottles of juice from Bhatinda and consumed the same when the train reached Rohtak at night after which they fell unconscious and could not recall what followed. The police suspect that Paras would have managed to decamp somewhere from Rohtak area.
Paras was a close associate of Neetu Dabodia alias Surender Malik who was shot dead by the Delhi Police Special Cell during an encounter on 24 October.
