Overview

• Officials said the inmates cut iron bars with a saw and climbed the boundary wall using rope fashioned from blankets, with one account also mentioning a bamboo pole.
• Director General of Prisons Susanta Kumar Nath suspended chief warder Bhagat Ram and warder Siddhant Sahu for negligence, and a case was registered at Choudwar police station.
• The DIG (Cuttack Range) is leading an inquiry into security lapses, including how tools reached the cells and whether any staff or outsiders aided the escape.
• Police said the pair were undertrial in the January Panikoili Panda jewellery shop robbery in Jajpur district, in which two people were killed.
• Cuttack police reported a last sighting around 3 am in the Chudakhia area and said the fugitives might be moving toward Bihar, Jharkhand or West Bengal, while reports differ on one name, citing either Chandrakant Kumar or Madhukant.