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Police sound
statewide alert, dispatch teams to nab the undertrials
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Hyderabad(Agencies): Four
undertrial prisoners reportedly escaped from the COVID-19 ward of the Gandhi
General Hospital here on Thursday.
The prisoners had been
admitted to the hospital after they, along with others, were tested positive
for the novel coronavirus.
After receiving the
information from the hospital authorities, Chilkalguda police officials rushed
to the spot and found the grills on the ventilators of a bathroom being removed
to make an escape.
Thee police said that the
prisoners had apparently recced the hospital during their stay and planned
their escape.
The police said it appeared
that after removing the grills, they climbed down from the second floor of the
hospital holding on to a drainage pipe fixed to the wall and later escaped.
The hospital staff noticed
that the prisoners had escaped after they failed to appear while they were
taking attendance.
Before hospitalisation, they
were lodged in the Charlapalli prison where they were remanded in cases related
to thefts and robbery.
A statewide alert has been
sounded and teams dispatched to nab them, said the police.
It may be recalled that a
recent test in various state jails had shown high incidence of COVID-19 cases.
Earlier this month, apart from
many prisoners, 13 staff members at the Warangal jail had tested positive.
Telangana has three Central
jails, seven district prisons, 33 sub-jails, a women’s jail, a borstal, an open
jail and four special prisons, among other detention facilities and prisons.
All of these are packed with convicts
and undertrials beyond their capacity.
In neighbouring Andhra
Pradesh, reports of 337 out of 700 inmates tested for Covid-19 at the Kadapa
jail last week returned positive.
Again in Vizag, 18 inmates and
six officials of Central Prison at Adavivaram tested positive for coronavirus
last week.
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