8 members of banned SIMI outfit escaped from Bhopal Central Jail after killing a security guard using a “steel plate and glass” and scaling the prison wall with bed sheets.
“8 SIMI activists escaped around 2-3 AM by killing a jail security guard,” DIG Bhopal Raman Singh told PTI.
They killed the guard by slitting his throat with steel plate and glass after overpowering him, the DIG said.
“The incident happened around 2 AM when there was a change of guard. Jail official Ramashankar Yadav was overpowered by these men and killed, they snatched the keys and opened the cells. After that, they rushed to the outer periphery wall of the jail, made stairs out of bed sheets and escaped” SP Arvind Saxena said.
Police have launched a search for the escaped prisoners
Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is a banned Islamist fundamentalist organisation that was formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1977. It was banned by the government in 2006.
In October, 2013, 7 SIMI activists had escaped from Khandwa district prison after stabbing two security guards and snatching rifles
