Close on the heels of killing of a police constable and injuring about a dozen others after inmates of Juvenile Home attacked them in Meerut on Thursday, in yet another daring act reported from Chitrakot, four juveniles, jailed for rape and dacoity, have escaped from the Child Protection Home after opening fire and also hitting the security guard with the butt of the country made revolver late on Friday night.
The sensational incident took place in Karvi area of the dacoit infested Chitrakot district in Bundelkhand region and Deepak Patel, nephew of dreaded dacoit Sudesh Patel alias Balkheria on whom UP and MP government have announced a reward of Rs 4 lakh on his arrest, was amongst the four inmates who escaped on Friday night. Three security guards of the protection house including a police head constable have been suspended and FIR was registered against them along with the four inmates in connection with the incident.
Additional Superintendent of Police(ASP) of Chitakot, R D Chaurasia while giving details of the incident on Saturday morning said that the juveniles fled from the protection home after threatening the security guards. He said that on late Friday night, four inmates threatened the security guard with dire consequences and asked to have over the gate keys to them. However, when the guard denied, one of them opened fire in air and later hit the butt on guard’s head and snatched the keys. later as the gates opened, all the four escaped from the protection home. The four juveniles who fled were Kushhal Qureshi and Raja aka Vilas, charged with rapes and Deepak Patel and Chandra Prakash aka Khachchu, who were jailed in connection with dacoity. They were having many more cases registered against them. Chaurasia said that efforts were on to nab the juveniles.
Meanwhile in a separate incident reported from Muzaffarnagar, local police is still groping on dark over the motive behind the sensational killing of chief warden of district jail who was allegedly shot dead by some unidentified persons on Friday night. SSP of Muzaffarnagar, H N Singh, claimed on Saturday morning that following an FIR lodged by jailor of the prison, police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants and a search operation in this connection has been initiated. As per preliminary investigations, police suspect an old enmity behind the crime as the chief warden had got threats
from some miscreants after confrontation over meeting with under trial prisoners, he added. Chunnilal (50), was shot dead by unidentified miscreants just behind District Jail Compound, when he was returning home from jail duty on Friday night. It may be recalled that a head warden Devvart Sharma was also shot dead outside the district jail six years ago.