TUTICORIN: A remand prisoner, who escaped from the Kovilpatti sub-jail in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu on Monday, was nabbed within a few minutes by jail authorities with the help of traffic police, a group of youths playing on a ground and some construction workers. He was lodged in the same sub-jail.
M Sakthivel, of Kootampuli in Tuticorin district, was arrested by the Eral police on October 14 in connection with mobile theft cases and lodged in the Kovilpatti sub-jail in judicial custody. On Monday morning, fellow prisoners saw him climbing a tree close to the compound wall.
Before he could be stopped by the prison guards, he climbed the wall and escaped. The prison staff along with traffic police personnel, and others helped nab the accused.
Sakthivel was trapped in a building close to the office of the special tahsildar for adi dravida welfare and arrested. He suffered an injury below his feet when he walked on pieces of broken glass on the prison wall.