This is an archive article published on May 2, 2023
Undertrial gets 6 months’ jail for escaping from custody
An FIR was then filed against him at J J Marg police station under Section 224 (Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) of the IPC
Lodged at Taloja Central Jail, Moin Mohammed Shamim was taken to the state-run J J Hospital for check-up of a tumour near his neck on May 25, 2017. (Express Photo)
A MAGISTRATE court, in a recent order, sentenced an undertrial to six months’ jail for escaping from custody while being taken to hospital from jail.
Moin Mohammed Shamim (41) was jailed in 2017 in a theft case. Lodged at Taloja Central Jail, he was taken to the state-run J J Hospital for check-up of a tumour near his neck on May 25, 2017.
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He was accompanied by two constables. At the hospital, a doctor took a sample from his tumour for tests at the pathology department. The attendant at the department was talking to one of the constables that Shamim would need three more tests. The other constable then joined him. It was alleged that Shamim managed to flee around this time. The police searched for him on the premises but could not find him.
An FIR was then filed against him at J J Marg police station under Section 224 (Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) of the IPC. He was arrested over two months later on August 1, 2017.
Shamim’s lawyer had argued that no document was produced by the police to show that he was taken to the hospital. The court relied on documents to conclude that Shamim was lodged in Taloja jail in a theft case and on the day of the incident escaped from custody of the two constables.
Lodged at Taloja Central Jail, Moin Mohammed Shamim was taken to the state-run J J Hospital for check-up of a tumour near his neck on May 25, 2017. (Express Photo) 
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