Police intensify search after two under trials escape from Hiriadka jail

 

Udupi, 25 Jan 2016: In an incident that questions the security arrangement at Hiriadka jail, two undertrials succeeded in escaping from the jail premises on Saturday evening.

 

Sources in the jail confirmed that Ashok alias Babru and Kumar Gosavi, accused in a theft case had escaped from jail.

 

The duo, hailing from Hassan was arrested by the Hiriadka police on June 9, 2015 with regard to a case of theft reported in Hassan.

 

Sources say that last year the police found three people moving around the Hiriadka bus stand in a suspicious manner. On questioning, they revealed the crime and said that three others were also involved in the theft. The other three were arrested from Udupi the following day. Along with six arrests, the police recovered the stolen gold estimated to be worth Rs 2.05 lakh from the accused.

 

The manner in which they escaped is not known yet. The police have intensified the search operations.