HC: Jail staff ‘connived’ with inmates

Singh observed: “This is a serious case,where some convicts and under trails were able to escape by scaling the wall with the help of a rope and by cutting iron rods. This could not have happened but for the connivance on the part of some jail staff. Even the superintendent may have to explain these serious happenings in the jail. The weapons for cutting the iron rods could not have reached the jail premises without being detected if the proper checks had been carried out.” The court also asked the state government to “ascertain what action has been taken against the jail staff”. In their petitions,jail warders had submitted that it was difficult to regularly keep track of 60 acres in the absence of adequate staff.