Prisoner runs away from hospital, negligent cops booked
By IANSWednesday, April 14, 2010
CHANDIGARH - Five police officials were booked for being negligent while on duty as a prisoner managed to flee from the hospital here Wednesday.
Paramjit Singh, who was caught with two kg heroin from the bus stand in Sector 43 in Oct 2007 by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), was awarded 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a local court March 13, 2010, police said.
Middle-aged Singh, who was a resident of Ludhiana in Punjab, was lodged in the Burail Model jail in Chandigarh.
“Condemning the court’s verdict, he sat on a hunger strike March 13. Seeing his deteriorating condition, police shifted him to the government hospital in Sector 32 March 18,” said J.S. Khaira, the deputy superintendent of police (south).
Singh continued his hunger strike and was on glucose drip, he added.
“However, when a nurse came to see him Wednesday, he left saying he was going to the toilet and fled from the hospital,” Khaira said.
“We have booked one head constable and four constables, deployed there to keep an eye on him, for negligence in their duty,” he added.
