The escapees have been identified as Sahil Tirchi, accused of committing murder, and Vidhan Chakma and Chitiso Chakma, both accused in kidnapping and extortion cases.
A police case, in this connection, has been registered with the Namsai Police Station and a search operation launched immediately, informed Thomas Pertin, OC of Chowkham POP.
He said, the incident occurred on Saturday around 6 pm when a Nepali man engaged by the private firm supplying cooked foods to UTPs was serving them food and potable water.
The ‘men in uniform’ guarding the lock-up had to open the iron grill to facilitate the food server to pass on the eatables and bucketful of water to the UTPs in the cell No. 2 of the lock-up and all of a sudden, all 14 UTPs of the cell came out in a bid to escape but the ‘major’ standing guard outside stopped them. However, three of the inmates managed to flee from the scene.
Source: Assam Tribune
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