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MARGAO
The two teams drafted by the Goa police in search of the under trial who had escaped from custody at the South Goa Sessions Court on Friday, has landed in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Sunday.
While the team sent to Shimoga-Karnataka reached on Sunday morning, the second team sent to Tamil Nadu reached Thanjavur on Sunday evening.
The police has deputed the two teams to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on suspicion that the under trial must have headed to his friends place after escaping from custody.
It’s now three days since the under trial Ramchandra Yallappa had given the Goa police escort party a slip while coming out of the South Goa Sessions Court on Friday, triggering outrage amongst social activists and lawyers.
The accused, who was arrested by the Canacona police in connection with the rape of a British woman at Palolem in December 2018, had given the escort party a slip after he managed to escape from the ventilator of the court toilet.
