PUNE: The Swargate police on Friday night arrested the undertrial in a murder case who had escaped from the Sassoon General Hospital during the day’s wee hours.
A police team headed senior inspector Balasaheb Kopnar spotted the escaped undertrial, Sameer Akram Shaikh (24), late on Friday night in Sahakarnagar while patrolling the area.
“Shaikh was walking towards the Pune-Bengaluru Highway in a bid to flee the Pune city. He was nabbed and handed over to the Bund Garden police station for further action,” deputy commissioner of police (zone II) Sagar Patil said.
Shaikh, who was lodged at the Kopargaon jail in Ahmednagar district in a murder case, had consumed bathroom cleaning liquid on January 27 in a bid to end his life. After receiving primary treatment at a hospital in Ahmednagar, Shaikh was shifted to the Sassoon hospital, police said.
Shaikh managed to give a slip to the two guards deployed at the hospital to keep an eye on him, and fled the premises around 4.30am on Friday. A case was registered with the Bund Garden police station on Friday morning.