Acquitted,but jailor dismissed from service

Mankar,who was posted at the Dantewada jail at the time of the incident,was arrested after the investigating officers slapped charges on him under sections 128,129 and 130 of the IPC that deal with public servant voluntarily and negligently allowing prisoner of state or war in his custody to escape and sections 221,222,223 and 225 of the IPC for intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public servant bound by law to apprehend an offender.

Last week,Dantewada Sessions Court judge Pramod Kumar Shrivastava had acquitted Mankar,saying there is no prima facie evidence to show that Mankar has aided escape of jail inmates.