Vadodara: Man nabbed for fraud ‘walks out’ of Panigate police station

VADODARA: In an embarrassing incident that left the cops red-faced, a man accused in a cheating case fled from the Panigate police station on Tuesday in broad daylight. Durgesh Kumar Gupta didn’t have to work too hard as he escaped from the police station located in the old city and fled in an auto-rickshaw.
The cops learnt about his escape after some time and swung into action.
The incident occurred at around 5 pm.
Gupta, who was in the lock-up, requested the police to allow him to use the washroom. He was taken to the washroom that had a small window. Gupta managed to remove a few bricks from the window and sneaked out of it. He then strolled across the road and hired an auto-rickshaw. The cops later scanned the CCTV footage and tracked down the vehicle he had boarded.
The driver told the cops that Gupta got down at a bus depot in Sayajigunj.
Further investigations revealed that he boarded a bus to Ahmedabad. Senior police officials have ordered an inquiry into the security lapse.
Gupta is an accused in a cheating case wherein three men duped a woman and stole her gold bangles some days ago. He was arrested by the police on July 7 but he tested positive for Covid.
He was admitted to a hospital and after he tested negative for Covid, the cops arrested him on Tuesday morning.