22 juveniles with grave charges escape from rehabilitation centre in Jaipur

The juvenile inmates have grave charges against them including rape charges against eight of them and attempt to murder charges against 13 of them. One of them has a murder charge against him.

Jaipur: At least 22 kids, accused of rape and murder, have escaped from a rehabilitation centre in Jaipur early morning on Monday. The search for them is still on.

The juvenile inmates of the Bal Sudhar Griha, situated in Jaipur’s Sethi Colony, have grave charges against them, including rape charges against eight of them and attempt to murder charges against 13 of them. One of them has a murder charge against him.

Transport Nagar police station circle inspector Zulfikar told Deccan Herald that 23 boys under the age of 18, had actually fled. “One of them went home, whose relatives have brought him back.”

The police say the boys fled through the window of the store on the back side of the home and they cut it with a gas-cutter around 5 am in the morning. The police are keeping a watch around the homes of these boys and the probable areas where they could have gone after escaping. But nobody has been caught yet except one. These boys have been staying in this centre for the past two years.

The centre superintendent Manoj Kumar said probably some insider has helped the boys to escape.

But this is not the first time that these juvenile delinquents have fled from this particular centre. In June last year, at least 15 young offenders had escaped through the bathroom window early in the morning again and bolted the rooms of all others from outside.

In 2019, five other inmates in the age group of 11 to 15 had escaped after taking the key from the sleeping guard.