Assam: Prisoner Flees From Police Custody In Biswanath

GUWAHATI: A prisoner of the Biswanath district jail escaped during transit in Biswanath district of Assam on Tuesday.

Bhaskar Jyoti Nath, a resident of Tezpur, was identified as the prisoner involved in the daring escape.

Nath had been awarded a jail term of 20 years for alleged murder. He was also convicted for two cases of kidnap and dacoity, along with the murder charge.

The prisoner reportedly escaped from police custody while he was taken from the Tezpur sessions court to the Biswanath jail. In June this year, the authorities had transferred the prisoner to Biswanath district prison from Tezpur jail, where he was earlier lodged.

The prisoner had earlier been kept at the Tezpur jail. However, after reports of untoward incidents being created in the jail premises by the prisoner, authorities decided to transfer him to the Biswanath district prison in the month of June.

Full details of the escape are yet to emerge.

Meanwhile, four of the convicts that escaped from jail in Meghalaya were lynched by an irate mob near Jowai, killing them. Two more are stated to be in serious condition. A large number of people chased the group of prisoners to a nearby forest and attacked them with lethal weapons.

A group of six prisoners escaped from the Jowai jail on September 10 after they overpowered the staff there, and five of them reached Shangpung village on Sunday, about 70 km away, a senior officer said.

A purported video of the incident showed angry villagers and beating them mercilessly.

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