Five convicts escape from Goa jail

The inmates, who have 8 am-10 am, as their stipulated recreation-time, made their gateway through a hole excavated in cell number 1, informed deputy collector, North Goa, Sanjit Rodrigues, who is also the in-charge of the Jail. The absence of the five inmates serving in cell number 1 and 2 was discovered only at around 11.15 am by the jail-staff who sounded a general alert. A dog-squad has been pressed into service to nab the culprits. A Superintendant of Police SP Crime has been made in-charge of the investigations in this major setback, faced by the Goa Police.

Jail-breaks, not an unusual phenomenon in this tiny State, have once again brought back memories of the sensational jail-break by notorious smuggler Sukur Nanain Bhakia, around two decades ago. Bhakia was rumoured to have served tranquilisers to the jail-staff at the unauthorised farewell dinner in Aguada Central Jail and thus escaped from the clutches of Gujarat police who had come to arrest him subsequent to his release from Goa.