Bhopal jailbreak

A daring escape from Shajapur jail saw a prisoner scale a 20-foot wall using improvised tools after ten days of meticulous observation. Despite injuring his leg during the jump, the fugitive managed to travel hundreds of kilometres to Chhattisgarh. However, his freedom was short-lived as a special police team tracked him down and apprehended him in a dramatic raid.

Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) may take over security of jails in the state in a move that is aimed at tightening security after the Bhopal jailbreak incident in October last year.

Odisha Police on Monday sounded high alert across the state after eight terrorists of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) escaped from Bhopal central jail early this morning.

The Bhopal jailbreak is a near rerun of the SIMI breakout from Khandwa prison, 130 km from Indore, exactly three years ago.

After the jailbreak by eight SIMI suspects from Bhopal Central Jail, prison authorities have decided to change the entire locks of the jails.

Eight Special Armed Force (SAF) personnel, who were specially deployed to guard the SIMI suspects’ barracks in Bhopal Central Jail, were sleeping when the terror accused broke out in the wee hours of October 31, 2016, the prisons department has said in its preliminary inquiry report.

MP government has announced to conduct a judicial inquiry into Bhopal jailbreak and SIMI encounter case. Retired judge of High Court, Justice SK Pandey will conduct the inquiry.

Official sources said that a team of officials, accompanied by police personnel, carried out an intensive checking inside the jail and recovered several items, considered as objectionable.

The one-man commission probing the SIMI jailbreak and encounter Tuesday dismissed the pleas of kin of SIMI suspects’ kin for a visit to the encounter site and video evidence.

The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday extended by three months the tenure of a single-member judicial panel probing the last year's jailbreak by eight SIMI operatives and their subsequent gunning down by police.

Two undertrial prisoners lodged in the district jail here escaped from the facility apparently in wee hours today, an official said.

Jitendra Jadon, the first jail guard to spot the SIMI escape and chase them, regrets not having a firearm.

A one-member judicial commission, which is probing jailbreak and subsequent encounter of 8 SIMI operatives on city outskirts in October, is likely to visit Nabha high-security jail in Punjab soon, to study the jail-break in which eight, including two terrorists escaped a couple of days after that from the northern state.

Alarmed by last month's twin jailbreaks in Bhopal and Punjab, the state government has started the process of fortifying all 91 prisons in the state.

Those killed were allegedly key members of SIMI's Abu Faisal module that had developed links with al-Qaida. Questions were raised about the encounter as footage, purportedly from the site, showed a cop firing at a body while another showed a cop placing what appears to be a knife.

DIG-Led Team Checks Cells, 35 Barracks

Abu Faisal, chief of the Madhya Pradesh unit of banned terrorist organisation Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who was one of the masterminds behind the 2013 Khandwa jailbreak, wants to call it quits, but fears he will be eliminated by his handlers in Pakistan.