An undertrial prisoner, who was admitted to Gandhi Hospital’s prisons ward, escaped from there on Monday.
Pasupu Vikky (25) used a saw to cut the bathroom ventilator grill and squeezed out from there. He scaled down the hospital building from the second floor through the water pipe.
A senior official of the Telangana Prisons’ Department said that Vikky, who was booked under sections 498-A (Domestic violence) and 307 (Attempt to murder) of the IPC, was lodged in Cherlapally jail in December last year.
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After he attempted suicide by consuming blade pieces, the prisons staff rushed him to Gandhi Hospital on February 25.
“Vikky managed to escape around 1 a.m. on Monday. He did not visit his family at Mailardevpally after that,” the official said.
Chilkalguda police analysed the footages of the CCTVs installed at the hospital and found that after scaling down the building, he climbed up the hospital’s back gate, which always remains closed.
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Police constituted a special team to nab the accused and were also trying to find the transport means he used. A case under Section 224 (Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against Vikky.