Ali was rearrested in Assam’s Sribhumi district on Friday by a police team headed by the Dharmanagar sub-inspector with the cooperation of the local police.
Three days after rearresting an inmate who had escaped from Dharmanagar sub-jail in North Tripura district during the recently concluded Durga Puja, the police produced him before a local court on Monday. The inmate, identified as Mohammad Rahim Ali, was then sent to judicial custody till October 16.
Ali was rearrested in Assam’s Sribhumi district on Friday by a police team headed by the Dharmanagar sub-inspector with the cooperation of the local police.
Six inmates, including five undertrial prisoners, escaped from the sub-jail on October 1 when they were brought out for morning rituals and breakfast. Bedu Miah, a security guard posted at the sub-jail, was attacked by the inmates with some sharp weapons.
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Three of the escapees have been rearrested so far, while the others are still at large.
The government counsel said that the other two rearrested inmates of the Dharmanagar sub-jail would be produced before the court on October 16.
The six inmates are Najim Uddin and Mohammad Rahim Ali, both from Churaibari, situated near the Assam-Tripura boundary; Sunil Debbarma from Melaghar in Sepahijala district; Rosan Ali from Kadamtala in North Tripura district, Abdul Patta from Nilambazar in Assam’s Sribhumi district, and Narayan Chandra Datta from Bangladesh’s Deni district.
Abdul Patta, Mohammad Rahim Ali, Narayan Chandra Datta, Rosan Ali, and Najim Uddin are undertrial prisoners. Sunil Debbarma, on the other hand, was serving life imprisonment.
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A day after the six inmates escaped, a jailor and four wardens of the Dharmanagar sub-jail were suspended in connection with the incident.