•Of the total sanctioned strength of 22 prison officials — including one assistant jailer, five head guards and 16 guards — only four “unarmed guards” were present on duty during the jailbreak.

•The prison has two roof watchtowers manned by two guards during the night. When the jailbreak happened, no guard was present on these towers. A guard Hiranand Ajgale was on duty behind the prison and he wasn’t there when the alarm was raised.

•The alleged mastermind of the incident, Sujeet Kumar, also known as “Commander” inside the jail, was allowed to move around in the prison freely even outside the main gate and the prison armoury. This has been authenticated by statements of several guards. Sujeet mobilised a mob and over-ran the jail in barely 15 minutes.

He was able to break open the wooden door of the room where several weapons, including one Insas rifle, three muskets, three .303 rifles and 237 rounds of bullets were kept.

These weapons should have been kept in a nearby armoury which had a steel door. “Weapons and ammunition were kept at such a place from where they could have been looted easily. This reinforces the suspicion of involvement of jailer with the fleeing inmates,” the report says.

•The fleeing inmates tied up round-in-charge Sunil Kumar Pujari and head guard Jaiprakash Kannoje. Hearing gunfire, a frightened guard in-charge Shambhuram Sahu hid behind the wall. No one tried to stop the fleeing inmates, there was no provision of a reserve guard.

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