Police have recovered parts of the metal chain connecting handcuffs that the notorious criminal Upendra Singh had cut and thrown after escaping from police custody from Tarrighat area of Patan on Sunday, informed Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Prashant Thakur.
The ASP told The Pioneer over phone that “the metal chain was found in Tarrighat of Patan on the instance of Upendra Singh.” Replying to a query about other contacts and accomplices of Upendra Singh, the SP said that Upendra has so far not divulged any information in this connection and the police were interrogating him. The police custody remand of Upendra Singh will end on March 26. Meanwhile, sources in the police department said that Upendra Singh had snatched away a wireless set which the police have not yet been able to recover. The criminal told the police that after reaching Odisha he purchased a hexa blade by which he cut the handcuffs.
Upendra told the police that after de-boarding train and capturing a car in Kumhari, they reached Khamariya nullah of Patan where the car met with an accident. later he hid in the area and spent the night there only. The next night around 3 O’clock he reached Rajim on foot via Fingeshwar and took lift in a truck to reach Mahasamund. From Mahasamund he boarded a train and reached Odisha from where he went to Bihar.