Prison authorities on Saturday announced a high-level inquiry into the escape of a notorious kidnapper – serving a life sentence in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa central jail – from a government hospital during treatment. Prison authorities on Saturday announced a high-level inquiry into the escape of a notorious kidnapper – serving a life sentence in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa central jail – from a government hospital during treatment.
Balinder Singh, 41, admitted to Rewa’s Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital for treatment of a spinal ailment on Thursday, escaped from the hospital early Friday morning. He had been kept under single guard custody owing to the alleged shortage of police personnel at Rewa police lines and guards at the jail.
Prison authorities taking serious note of the incident, state director general of jails VK Singh ordered the suspension of the superintendent of Rewa central jail, DS Alawa. Deputy jail superintendents RP Mishra and Israr Ahmad were also removed from their posts and issued show-cause notices, the DG (jails) told HT.
While Hoshangabad central jail superintendent Santosh Solanki will officiate as Rewa Central jail superintendent after Alawa’s suspension, Mahesh Tikariya and RS Singh will take charge of the two deputy jail superintendents.
Two jail guards were already suspended in connection with the escape on Friday. The high-level inquiry ordered into the sensational escape will cover all aspects, including the possible role of the jail staff in aiding the escape of Balinder, who was sentenced to life by an Indore court in 2007 for the December 2004 kidnapping of a businessman, Kailesh Baheti.
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