Jail inmate escapes from quarantine

Vadodara: An inmate of Vadodara Central Jail escaped from the Covid-19 care centre at Lalbaug community hall in the wee hours on Tuesday. The prisoner identified as Dinesh alias Chhotu Yadav was kept in quarantine with 24 other inmates of the jail and two accused from Harni and Karelibaug police stations. Of these 27 quarantined persons, 18 were brought to the centre on Monday after their samples for tests were submitted. The cops learnt about Yadav’s absence at 8 am on Tuesday when the cop in-charge of the centre came to check the presence of all locked up on the first floor of the community hall.

When Yadav was not found with other inmates, cops checked around and found a broken window grill. The prisoner managed to escape despite 13 cops guarding the quarantine centre during the night shift.

On Tuesday, reports of Yadav and 17 others turned out to be negative. “Sixteen jail inmates and accused from Karelibaug police station were sent back,” said inspector R A Patel of Makarpura police station.

Yadav, a native of Jeevanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, was convicted and sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by a sessions court in Nadiad for possessing a country-made pistol and attacking a police constable in May 2018.


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