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BICHOLIM
In an incident which has exposed security lapses, an inmate at the Colvale Jail housed along with other inmates in a shelter home at Narayan Zantye College of Commerce on account of the lockdown fled on Wednesday night.
According to reports, about 13 jail inmates had been lodged in the shelter home due to the ongoing lockdown, while some other migrants were also house separately in the college premises. Four policemen were deputed to keep watch on the inmates.
On Wednesday night, Shrikant Mallapa Yadar of Karnataka, who is in Colvale Jail in connection with a theft at Pernem, went to the bathroom on the pretext of having bath and escaped from the centre.
On realising that Yadar was missing, the police conducted a search operation, but could not trace him.
