The police on Saturday arrested a prisoner who had escaped from the sub-jail at Ragadi under the Kaliapani police station in Jajpur district on March 9.
Bira Singh Munda (32), a rape accused, was nabbed a police team from his village Chirigunia.
Munda had fled from the jail by fooling the on-duty jail officials by posing as a labourer who worked at a construction site inside the jail.
He had been lodged in the jail since March 2 after being arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl.
After escaping from the jail, he had gone to Anandapur, where he worked as a daily labourer.
On Saturday morning, he came to his village to meet his wife and children and the police arrested him after a tip-off from some villagers.