Following Mass Jailbreak from Karachis District Malir Prison, the authorities re -entered three more escape late Tuesday night and brought the total number of arrested inmates to 94 of the 216 escaped prisoners.
However, 122 prisoners still remain largely, and a search operation is underway to catch them, officials confirmed.
According to the prison authorities, a case related to Jailbreak has been registered at Shah Latif Town Police Station, where a four was filed by the prison’s deputy superintendent Zulfiqar Ali Pirzada according to various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and anti-terrorism. The charges listed include, among other things, attempted murder, dacoity, police meeting and terrorism.
Authorities have appealed to the public for help to find the remaining refugees and have increased coordination between law enforcement authorities to ensure their rapid capture. Raids are carried out in different parts of the city with surveillance increased by the known homes to the escaped prisoners.
Furthermore, officials have announced that fencing who voluntarily returns to prison will be relieved.
Volunteer surrender of prisoner
In the midst of the ongoing Malir -Prison Escape Case has another prisoner voluntarily turned in.
Asif, who sentenced a judgment under section 380 (theft), surrendered, and after remembering Jailbreak, he said the incident began at the moment shivering from the earthquake felt. “As soon as the earthquake hit, the prisoners began to get out of their barracks,” he said. “There was no one to stop us.”
He described how all the inmates went through the main gate and went to the road outside.
Asif, who expressed remorse, said, “I want to end my sentence.” He added that he had already spent 10 months in prison and his case is still in progress.
Earlier, a woman took her son and friend back to prison, one of whom was a drug addict and had reached home at 1 p.m. 3.30 at night to prison.
The woman said she gave them meal before taking them back to prison. She was hopeful that her son would recover from drug addiction in prison.
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Cm Orders probe
Meanwhile at an emergency meeting held in Chief Minister’s House, Sindh cm Murad Ali Shah ordered a thorough investigation of Malir prison event. He assigned chief secretary Asif Hyder Shah to oversee the probe by involving Karachi Commissioner Hassan Naqvi and Karachi Police Chief Javed Alam Odho.
Murad criticized the prison administration for not seeking immediate assistance from local authorities and law enforcement agencies.
“There seems to have been a complete collapse in communication and readiness,” he said during the press conference.
He emphasized that those who found negligent would have consequences, “those responsible will be held responsible”. The Minister of the Main also instructed the Home Secretary to conduct a detailed security audit of all prisons over Sindh.
A robust search operation from the district and prison police and Rangers had followed the prison break, with 90 escape being re -captured on Tuesday.
According to police, the prison administration evacuated the prisoners of the barracks as a precautionary measure due to the potential danger after the earthquake.
About 3,000 prisoners gathered near Mari Gate and caused a stamp.
The home and the law minister called this jailbreak as “one of the biggest ever in Pakistan”.
The prisoners took advantage of the situation, broke locks of the Mari gate and began to flee by skipping the prison walls.
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Prison Police and Frontier Corps (FC) staff tried to stop the prisoners by shooting warning shots.
However, a prisoner caught a Kalashnikov from a police officer and began shooting unresolved and wounded two FC staff and a police officer.
Other prisoners also wounded officials with stones and sticks and managed to escape. The intense firing caused panic in the area and the traffic on the national highway was suspended.
The road from Quaidabad to Malir Prison was closed, resulting in long queues of vehicles between Malir Kala Board and Quaidabad.
A large quota of the District Malir Police, Rangers and FC reached the stage.
IG and you prisons, Superintendent of Prison, SSP Malir and other senior officials also reached the place.
Sindh Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar noted the incident and instructed SSP Malir to take immediate action and arrest the escaped prisoners.
He instructed effective measures, monitoring, intelligence and roadblocks and ordered strict departmental action against negligent officials.
Jailbreak started late at night on June 2 and continued into the early morning of June 3, after hundreds of inmates, uneasy by mild tremors, was brought into the prison garden as a security measure, said Sindh Minister Zia Ul Hasan Lanjar, while talking to journalists on the spot.
A door search door was done in the surrounding areas.
The locals caught videos of the escaping prisoners and shared them on social media and showed some shirtless prisoners who fled at Barfoot and others fleeing in six-seat rickshaws.
In the preliminary search operation, 50 prisoners were arrested from the prison district, while the Malir City police arrested 19 prisoners from different vehicles, and the Sukhan police arrested eight others.
Police also issued messages about mosque speakers to inform the public about the descriptions of the prisoners. Identity cards were checked and suspicious persons were taken into custody for interrogation.
IG SINDH GHOLAM NABI MEMON also reached Malir Prison on Tuesday morning and received an orientation from the superintendent of the situation.
IG Ellabored to journalists that most of the prisoners were imprisoned in drug cases, and several of them had psychological problems.
Murad has removed the Inspector General for Prisons Qazi Nazir, suspended you Prisons Hassan Sehto and Malir Prison Superintendent Arshad Hussain over the incident.
Murad called the incident “completely unacceptable” and promised to hold them responsible responsible and referred to gross negligence from the prison authorities.
Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said it was announced that no strict action would be taken against prisoners who are voluntarily returning within 24 hours.
However, those who do not return will be charged in accordance with the provisions of Jailbreak, which has a prison of up to seven years in prison.
