The Dhanupali police on Sunday arrested three youths of Sambalpur and Hirakud who were allegedly involved in stabbing Superintendent of the Sambalpur jail Brahmananda Sahu on Friday evening.
The arrested youths are Ajay Singh, Nilakantha nanda and Krushna Chandra Majhi.
As per a preliminary police report, a conspiracy was hatched from inside the jail by two inmates who instigated their friends to attack the jail superintendent. And at the instruction of the inmates, the three youths of Modipara (Sambalpur) and Hirakud town attacked the superintendent, the police said.
But the reason behind the enmity between the inmates and the superintendent is under investigation, the police added.
From this incident, one thing has become clear that criminals are also capable of continuing their crime network from the four walls of the jail.