Ranchi

3 juveniles flee Ghaghidih remand home, search on

Parvinder Bhatia

Three under-trial juvenile  fled the Ghaghidih-based remand home (correction home) on Wenesday night. According to sources, they made a rope out of bed-sheets to climb the barbed-wire fitted boundary wall of 15 ft after breaking the lock of one of the gates inside the home.

A fourth juvenile was also climbing the rope, but he was nabbed by the security guards.  The trio disappeared soon after getting out of the boundary wall.

As the news spread the Parsudih police station came into action. But, police have so far made no progress in nabbing out the three juveniles. Two of them are from the Sonari locality and one from the Parsudih.

Soon after the incident was reported to police, deputy superintendent of police (law and order) BN Singh, officer-in-charge, Parsudih police station, BK Chaturvedi and District Welfare Officer, Ranjana Mishra who monitors the affair of the Correction Home rushed to the spot.

Chanchala Kumar, the in-charge of the correction home admitted that there was security lapses on the part of the guards. Officer-in-charge, Parsudih police station Chaturvedi said that they are trying to trace the three fugitive.