Convict climbs pole, causes ruckus in jail over ‘demands’

In a serious lapse of security, a life-term convict climbed an electric pole and threatened to commit suicide in Cherlapally Central Prison on Monday.

The convict, K. Pasha, 38, who was working at a petrol pump near Cherlapally prison in the morning, ran up to the electric pole and climbed up.

Police said Pasha wanted sub-inspector Nagaraju of Shankerpally, who had booked a case against him, to be suspended. “He alleged the subinspector had an affair with his wife, whom he had murdered and whose conviction brought him to jail in 2012,” prison superintendent M. R. Bhasker said.

Sources said almost all jail officials, along “We kept assuring him with ACP Kushaiguda that we will put his Krishnamoorthi name on the list for reached to the scene and release of prisoners and called in the fire even suspend the SI. We brigade from Cherpally engaged him in talk fire station. The ordeal while two fire officers lasted about three hours went up the pole, before the man was grabbed him and brought down from the brought him down,” Mr pole. Bhasker said. A man who had murdered his wife earlier this month was nabbed by the Kandakur police on Monday. The accused was identified as Dandu Lingam,27, of Ranga Reddy district.

The accused wedded Hymavathi, 26, in a love marriage in 2010. After a while, Dandu's mother began to chide him over dowry saying that if he had married a girl from their caste he would have got `15-20 lakh in dowry. From then onwards, the accused and his family started harassing Hymavathi, said LB Nagar DCP M Venkateshwar Rao said.

"One day the accused asked his wife for money, which she refused to give. Fed up, she tried committing suicide. The accused egged her on, and in fact killed her by strangulating her," DCP Rao said.

Police registered a case on the basis of a complaint filed by K. Chandraiah, the father of the deceased. Accused Dandu was to be produced in court.