Overview
- Prison staff found one inmate missing during an evening roll call and an intensive search overnight failed to locate him inside the facility.
- Officials say the missing foreign national is a Nepali undertrial held on a theft case but media accounts conflict on his name, age and arrest date and authorities are still verifying those details.
- A separate escape involved 41-year-old Suresh, a POCSO convict who slipped past guards while assigned duties at the prison bazaar outside the main jail.
- Puzhal police registered FIRs for both incidents, formed special teams to track the absconders and questioned warders and other staff as part of an internal probe.
- The back-to-back breaches have raised fresh concerns about security practices at the high-security prison, including the use of outside duties for low-risk inmates, and officials say they will release findings after the inquiry and searches conclude.