India, Oct. 3 -- Two undertrial prisoners accused in a jewellery shop murder case escaped from Odisha's Choudwar Circle Jail in the early hours of Friday, police said. Two warders have been suspended on charges of negligence.
The fugitives, identified as Madhukant and Raja Sahani of Bihar, were facing trial in the Panikoili Panda Jewellery shop robbery in Jajpur district in January this year, in which two people were killed. They were lodged in Choudwar jail since January.
According to police, the duo escaped shortly after 1am by cutting through the iron grills of their cells. Prison authorities said they used improvised tools to open the bars, before climbing over the boundary wall using a bamboo pole and a rope taken from blankets. Bo...
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