Prisoner flees police custody
An under trial prisoner with handcuffs escaped from police custody at district sessions' judge court yesterday. Police said Abdul Gafur, accused in an arms case, was to appear before the sessions' judge court in connection with the case. He was brought to the court from local jail and at one stage he managed to escape taking advantage of huge crowd while he was being taken to the court hajat at 10:20am. ASP (Circle) Iqbal Shafi said drive is on to arrest the escapee. Gafur, who hailed from Cox's Bazar, was arrested here when he came to sell arms in 2008.
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