Bangalore: Look-out notice to nab serial rapist, searches stepped up
Bangalore, Sep 2 (PTI): Police have issued a look-out notice as it stepped up searches to nab serial rapist Jaishankar, who escaped from the high-security central prison in a dare-devil act.
Home Minister K J George today visited the Parappana Agrahara jail, from where the notorious criminal, with the help of a bamboo pole and bed-sheet, and wearing a police uniform, scaled the high security inner and outer northern periphery wall with electrical fencing and jumped down early yesterday, in a filmy style stunning the police.
Jaishankar is believed to have sustained bleeding injuries due to pierced glass on the sole of his foot and abrasive injuries on his fore arms and suffered other injuries on his body. Police in neighbouring Tamil Nadu have also been alerted as he was suspected to have sneaked out of the state.
The jail-break was seen as a serious security lapse as 11 prison officials were suspended yesterday for alleged dereliction of duty.
A special squad has been formed which launched an enquiry. It was found that CCTV cameras were old and did not cover all the places. There was also suggestions to install bio-metric locking system in the prison.
36-year-old Jaishankar, considered as a psychopath, who was recently sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in a trespass, rape and murder case, hailed from Kanyapattanam Konasamudra village in Tamil Nadu's Salem district.
The convict is facing trial in more than 20 various cases in Chennai, Dharmpuri, Hosur, Salem, Tirupattur of Tamilnadu and Bangalore Rural, Chitradurga, Hiriyur, Kadur, Molakalmur and Tumkur in Karnataka.
Govt announces Rs 5 lac reward
Bangalore, Sep 2 (IANS): An embarrassed Karnataka government Monday announced Rs.5 lac reward for credible information on tracing the criminal who escaped from the city central jail Sunday.
"We will reward Rs 5 lac to whoever gives credible information leading to capture of the convict (Jaishankar) who jumped the prison walls to escape," Home Minister K.J. George told reporters here after visiting the jail, located on the city's outskirts.
Admitting to serious security lapses that led to the incident for the first time in the central jail, George said the government would equip all prisons across the state with better surveillance system, including CCTV cameras, floodlights and electric fencing on their compound walls.
"Absence of CCTV cameras, searchlights and power for electric fence on the outer wall made it convenient to the accused to escape without being detected," George said.
Deputy Inspector General (prisons) Viwhwanathaiah, who is heading the inquiry committee, has been directed to ascertain how Jaishankar managed to get a duplicate key of his cell and a police uniform in which he escaped in disguise.
Meanwhile, police launched a massive manhunt to trace the convict across the state and neighbouring states like Tamil Nadu from where he hails, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra.
"We have stepped up vigil at check-posts and inter-state borders and circulated his photograph with other states to trace him," Director General of Police Lalrokhuma Pachuau told reporters later.