Seventeen inmates escaped from a jail in Tamil Nadu, India, with four later apprehended and thirteen remaining missing.
Seventeen prisoners escaped from a jail in Tamil Nadu's Theni district. Police arrested four of them and formed 17 teams to track the others.
- Seventeen undertrial prisoners escaped from the Thekkampatti sub-jail.
- Dindigul Superintendent of Police established check posts at 16 locations.
- Grade II police constable Thangapandi sustained a head injury.
- Police arrested four of the seventeen inmates who escaped.
- The escape occurred after prisoners allegedly faked a medical emergency.
- Nine prison staff were suspended following the incident.
- Tamil Nadu government transferred Director General of Police - prisons and correctional services, Dr Sandeep Rai Rathore.
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