Jail escapees had cellphone with them inside jail before fleeing

JAIPUR: A day after three prisoners escaped from Sanchor sub jail in Jalore district, preliminary investigations suggest that the one of escapees, Anil Pandya, an accused in the murder of a witness in Dara encounter case, had a cellphone and was in touch with the assailants who helped him and two of his accomplices to flee.
Jalore police sources say that the assailants and the escaped prisoners might have made Gujarat as their hideout.
Director general of police (jail) Omendra Bhardwaj and superintendent of police, Jalore, Anil Tak visited the sub jail and interrogated a few inmates who were staying in the barracks near to that of escaped inmates.
Throughout Monday, the district police was checking vehicles on the highways. A few budget hotels and others were also scanned by the police.
"One of the inmates, Manoj, who failed to flee along with Anil Pandya, Raj Kumar and Goparam, was interrogated. It was found that Anil Pandya had a cellphone in the jail and he was in touch with his accomplices. It appears that the plan of jail break was made on Saturday when all the three inmates were brought from Balotara(Barmer) sub jail to Sanchor," said a police officer.
"It would be investigated how the assailants overpowered the armed jail staff and whether there was any connivance of the jail staff with the inmates," said the officer.
SP Anil Tak said: "We have got concrete clues on the whereabouts of the fleeing inmates and they would be arrested soon. We have rounded up nearly a dozen people who were in touch with Anil Pandya."
Meanwhile, Bhardwaj said, "The assailants entered by knocking one of the doors which is nearly 200 meters away from the main gate of the jail as that door gives a passage from SDM office to the jail area. When the gate was opened, they overpowered the guard and after snatching away the key, they entered inside."