Criminal escapes on bike from civil hospital

Rajkot: A historysheeter lodged in Rajkot Central Jail gave police the slip from Rajkot Civil Hospital on Friday.
The police said the accused, Ramesh Makwana, was shifted to the civil hospital after he suffered reaction from overdose of medicines that he had taken in the jail. Makwana faces cases of robbery and land scam in Padadhari and Rajkot.
“While he was being taken to a police van on foot after being released from the hospital on Friday evening, Makwana sought permission for answering natures call. Hence, we took him to the urinal,” said an official from Pradyumannagar police station.
“It was then that his nephew arrived on a two-wheeler and said he would drive Makwana to the van as Makwana was unable to walk,” the official said.
Once Makwana sat on the two-wheeler, his nephew accelerated the vehicle and both of them vanished from the spot. The police have launched a manhunt for both Makwana and his nephew whose identity could not be ascertained.