A prisoner at Central Jail in Kannur, who escaped on Friday morning while under observation for suspected COVID-19, was caught in the evening from Kannapuram railway station by the police. He has been identified as Ajay Babu, 21, of Uttar Pradesh.
According to the police, he was arrested from a COVID-19-hit region of Kasaragod on March 25 in connection with a bank theft case. Following which, he was kept in the observation cell. However, he managed to escape by breaking the ventilation in the room adjoining the vegetable farm.
Later, people who recognised him at the station informed the police, and he was arrested.
