6 prisoners escape from Hassan jail

By Our Staff Correspondent

HASSAN, AUG. 25. Six prisoners - five undertrials and a convict - escaped from the Hassan District Sub-Jail this morning.

According to the Hassan City Police, Adil Sharief, Srinivas, Ramesh, Tejaswi, Anappa and Mohan allegedly threatened the warder, Mr. B. Krishnaiah, when the other prisoners were having their breakfast and escaped from the front wicket gate. The Deputy Inspector-General (Prisons), Mr. B. G. Malapure, arrived here to investigate the incident.

While Sharief had been convicted in a murder case and was awaiting trial in seven other cases, the rest were undertrials. Srinivas and Anappa were awaiting trial in murder cases. Ramesh and Tejaswi were accused of theft and Mohan of rape.

Police have issued a red alert and efforts are on to nab the prisoners. The Superintendent of Police, Hassan, Mr. M. A. Saleem, who visited the sub-jail twice, first on receiving information of the incident and later on orders from the DGP (Prisons), Mr. Revannasiddaiah, said the photographs of the prisoners had been sent to all police stations.

Mr. Saleem said it might be difficult to nab them as they were in plain clothes and not in jail uniform. A close watch was being kept on all escape routes, including bus and railway stations.

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