Two prisoners of the Warangal jail in Telangana escaped in the wee hours of Saturday.
According to the jail authorities – Sainik Singh (28), belonging to Kanker Khera, Uttar Pradesh, was a craftsman in the Army, working in the Secunderabad Cantonment. He was convicted on the charge of stealing a weapon and sent to Charlapalli jail in September 2015. He was shifted to the Warangal Central Prison on September 10 on administrative grounds.
Rajesh Yadav (28) of Mubarakpur, Arwal district of Bihar, was convicted of murder charge by the Sivarampally court in Ranga Reddy district in 2014. He was also brought from Cherlapalli jail on September 10.
Both were lodged at the high security barracks. According to jail superintendent K Newton, they broke the lock and used bedsheets to climb up the wall. There were no closed circuit cameras in the prison and those installed at select places were obsolete. Though there was a live electric wire around the wall, how could they escape?, he wondered.
City police commissioner G Sudheer Babu visited the prison along with senior officers. The city police have launched a hunt for the two.
