Afghan prisoner feigns illness, taken to AIIMS, flees custody
ON THE RUN The man complained of chest pain, stomachache after which he was rushed to AIIMS, from where he fled; 2 cops suspended We checked the CCTV cameras but Javid was not seen. We have his photographs and will circulate it across all police stations. We have raided some of his possible hideouts but are yet to find him. The search is on.
AN INVESTIGATING OFFICER
NEW DELHI: For the past 72 hours, police across the city are looking for an Afghan national, who escaped their custody on Saturday by allegedly feigning an illness.
Ahmed Javid, 54, arrested three years ago for allegedly smuggling heroin from Afghanistan, complained of chest pain and stomachache and was rushed to the jail hospital on September 29 night, according to prison officials.
While the jail doctor examined the undertrial and admitted him to the hospital, he complained of uneasiness the following morning. At around 11am, he was rushed to All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in a jail ambulance, escorted by jail officials and two armed Delhi police officers. At AIIMS, Javid reportedly posed as a patient or attendant and fled the room. Jail officers suspect he must have feigned his illness.
DCP South Ishwar Singh confirmed the prisoner’s escape and said an FIR has been registered. “Our teams are on the look-out for the man,” he said.
The two policemen have been suspended for dereliction of duty. A departmental inquiry has been ordered against the two.
In their statement, the two suspended police officers alleged that after reaching AIIMS, one of them had gone to inform the hospital’s police post about the prisoner patient. The other constable had taken him to a hospital room reportedly teeming with other prisoners. The two alleged that taking advantage of the crowd at AIIMS, while the two police officers were guarding the room, Javid escaped. The police control room and the local police at the Hauz Khas police station were informed but despite the two teams searching the hospital complex, he could not be traced.
An investigating officer told Hindustan Times, “We checked the CCTV cameras but Javid was not seen. We have his photographs and will circulate it across all police stations. We have raided some of his possible hideouts but are yet to find him. The search is on.”
Jail officers said he was arrested under the NDPS Act for allegedly smuggling the contraband. He was lodged in jail 8/9 of the prison complex. Prisoners adopt different strategies to flee police custody. Most escape on their way to courts or when they are admitted to hospitals. There are also cases of prisoners throwing chilli powder or feeding police officials sweets laced with sedatives to escape
a man arrested for drug peddling feigned stomachache and used a police station’s toilet at least five times in two hours. The 26-year-old man, Hemraj alias Shera, managed to break the window shaft brick-by brick and escaped
Mohammed Ali, a British national, brought to Delhi by the Telangana police in a passport fraud case escaped from Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station by breaking the window of the train’s washroom
alleged gangster Jitender alias Gogi escaped when he was being taken to a Haryana court by police in an inter-state bus. Four of Gogi’s gang members entered the bus, attacked the police on a deserted stretch in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, and helped him escape. They also threw chilli in the police’s eyes
36-year-old
Deepak Dabas, who had been arrested for murder, escaped from police custody in outer Delhi’s Bawana while he was being escorted to a court in Sonepat, Haryana. When the police van had reached the main market of Sonepat, Dabas and his friends attacked police and fled custody