7 escaped prisoners arrested in Jhapa

Jhapa, Sept 16: Seven prisoners who escaped from different prisons across the country have been arrested in Jhapa district.

Acting Information Officer of District Police Office, Jhapa, Prabin Shrestha said that five male and two female prisoners who escaped from the Central Jail in Sundhara, Jhumka in Sunsari and Kaski Jail on September 9 were nabbed.     

Shrestha said that 28 year olds Ruksar Khatun and Yeksara Khatun of Gauradaha Municipality-5, who escaped from the Central Jail in Sundhara, were held. The two had come to the police contacts after the government issued a notice asking the inmates to return to the jail. Two other prisoners from the central jail were also nabbed by the police in Jhapa.  

Likewise, Dinesh Soren, 33, of Kankai Municipality-6 in the district was arrested from his home. Soren, who was jailed in Kaski Prison, was arrested by the police based on the information shared by his neighbours.   

Furthermore, an Indian citizen named Nabal Kishor, 23, was handed over to the Area Police Office at Kechana in the district by the Indian Police after his arrest at Kishangunj in India.  

Similarly, prisoner Bal Bahadur Rai, 45, of Kankai Municipality-4 who escaped from Jhumka Jail was handed over to the police by his family. 

A large number of prisoners had escaped after vandalizing the jail buildings in many districts in the wake of the Gen-Z protests.

As per the reports, some prisoners are in police contact and some others informed they would be getting back to the prison within a few days. 

The police administration is searching for those who have neither returned nor are in contact, it is said.  (RSS)