Following the mass jailbreak of the Karachi district prison, the authorities resumed three other escapees on Tuesday evening, bearing the total number of detainees arrested at 94 of the 216 prisoners escaped.
However, 122 prisoners remain in freedom and a research operation is underway to apprehend them, have confirmed officials.
According to prison authorities, a case concerning the jailbreak was registered at the Shah Latif Town police station, where a FIR was deposited by the assistant superintendent of the prison Zulfiqar Ali Pirzada under various sections of the Pakistan Criminal Code (PPC) and the anti-terrorism law. The accusations listed include the attempted murder, the Dacity, the police meeting and terrorism, among others.
The authorities called on the public to obtain aid to locate the remaining fugitives and increased coordination between the organizations responsible for the application of the laws to ensure their rapid capture. Raids are underway in different parts of the city with increased surveillance in the known residences of escaped prisoners.
In addition, officials have announced that the dismisses that return voluntarily to prison will be given a leniency.
Voluntary surrender of prisoners
In the midst of the escape case of the in progress Malir, one more prisoner went voluntarily.
Asif, which served a sentence under article 380 (theft), went and recalling the jailbreak, he declared that the incident had started when the earthquakes were felt. “As soon as the earthquake struck, the prisoners began to get out of their barracks,” he said. “There was no one there to stop us.”
He described how all the detainees left the main door and went to the road outside.
Expressing remorse, AIF said: “I want to finish my sentence”. He added that he had already spent 10 months in prison and that his case was still in progress.
Earlier, a woman brought her son and friend to prison, one of whom was a drug addict and had arrived at home at 3:30 am in the night of the prison.
The woman said she had given them a meal before bringing them back to prison. She hoped that her son would recover from drug addiction in the prison.
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CM orders probe
Meanwhile, during an emergency meeting held at the house of the chief minister, Sindh Cm Murad Ali Shah ordered an in -depth investigation into the Evasy Incident of the Malir prison. He affected the chief secretary AIF Hyder Shah to supervise the investigation by involving Karachi Hassan Naqvi commissioner and the Karachi police chief, Javed Alam Odho.
Addressing the press after the meeting, Murad criticized the prison administration for having failed to request immediate assistance from local authorities and law enforcement agencies.
“There seems to have been a complete break in communication and preparation,” he said at the press conference.
He stressed that those who have found negligence would be confronted with consequences, “those responsible will be held responsible”. The chief minister also asked the interior secretary to make a detailed audit of the security of all prisons across the Sindh.
A robust research operation by the district and the prison police and the Rangers had followed the prison break during which 90 escaped was resumed on Tuesday.
According to police, the prison administration has evacuated the barracks prisoners as a precautionary measure due to the potential danger after the earthquake.
About 3,000 prisoners gathered near the husband door, causing a stampede.
The Minister of Home and Law nicknamed this jailbreak as “one of the greatest in Pakistan”.
The prisoners took advantage of the situation, broke the locks of the husband door and began to escape by jumping over the prison walls.
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Police police and border police (FC) tried to arrest the prisoners by drawing warning plans.
However, a prisoner seized a kalashnikov of a police officer and began to fire without discrimination, injuring two FC staff and a police officer.
Other prisoners also injured officials with stones and sticks and managed to escape. Intense fire caused panic in the region and traffic on the national road was suspended.
The Quidabad road to Malir prison has been closed, causing long lines of vehicles between the board of directors of Malir Kala and Quaidabad.
A large contingent of the police, rangers and the FC of the District of Malir has reached the premises.
IG and DIG prisons, superintendent of the prison, the SSP Malir and other senior officials have also reached the site.
The Minister of Sindh, Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar, took note of the incident and ordered the SSP Malir to take immediate measures and stop the prisoners escaped.
He instructed effective measures, surveillance, information and roadblocks, and ordered strict departmental action against negligent officials.
The Jailbreak started late in the night on June 2 and continued early in the morning on June 3 after hundreds of detainees, disturbed by light tremors, were brought to the prison court as a security measure, said Sindh Minister Zia Ul Hasan Lanjar, while he was addressed to journalists on the site.
A door to door search was carried out in the vicinity.
The inhabitants captured videos of prisoners in escape and shared them on social networks, showing shirtless prisoners fleeing barefoot and others escaping in six-seater rickshaws.
During the initial search operation, 50 prisoners were arrested from the prison districts, while the Malir City police arrested 19 prisoners from various vehicles, and the Sukhan police arrested eight others.
Police also made announcements on the mosque speakers to inform the public of the descriptions of the prisoners. The identity cards have been verified and suspect people were placed in police custody.
Ig Sindh Ghumlam Nabi Memon also reached Malir’s prison on Tuesday morning and received a briefing of the superintendent of the situation.
IG Ellabo has elaborated to journalists that most prisoners were imprisoned in drugs, and several of them had psychological problems.
Murad returned the inspector general of the Nazir Qazi prisons, suspended Dig Prisons Hassan Sehto and the superintendent of the Malir prison, Arshad Hussain, on the incident.
Murad called the “completely unacceptable” incident and promised to hold responsible officials, citing serious negligence by the prison authorities.
Sindh’s main minister Sharjeel Inam Memon announced that no strict measure would be taken against prisoners who will return voluntarily within 24 hours.
However, those who will not return will be charged under the Jailbreak provisions, which bear a sentence of up to seven years in prison.
