Apart from the Valley, 1,818 prisoners had escaped from prisons in Makawanpur, Dhading, Chitwan, Rasuwa and Sindhuli.
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Of the prisoners who escaped by breaking through prison walls in five districts of Bagmati Province, excluding the valley, on Asoj 10 and 11 during the Gen-G movement, 439 are still at large.
According to the data of the Bagmati Province Police Office, Hetauda, 1,818 prisoners had escaped from prisons in Makawanpur, Dhading, Chitwan, Rasuwa and Sindhuli, apart from the valley.
As of Tuesday, 439 are still absconding. Jitendra Kumar Basnet, Police Spokesperson and Senior Superintendent of Police of the Bagmati Province Police Office, Hetauda, informed that 1,367 prisoners have been taken into custody and returned to prison. Some of the prisoners who came to the prison have also returned on their own.
According to Police Spokesperson Basnet, out of the 440 prisoners who escaped from the Bhimphedi Regional Prison, only 268 have been taken into custody. The remaining 172 are still absconding. The police have stated that a search is underway for them. Similarly, out of the 72 children who escaped from the Juvenile Reformatory in Thanabharyang, Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City-11, 10 are still missing, while 62 have been taken into custody.
Police spokesperson Basnet informed that out of the 738 prisoners who escaped from Chitwan Prison during the Gen-G protest, 135 are yet to be captured. According to him, so far, 603 people have been captured by the police from various places and returned to the prison.
Similarly, out of the 97 prisoners who escaped from Rasuwa Prison, 94 have been captured by the police, while 3 are still being sought. Out of the 471 prisoners who escaped from Sindhuli Prison, 352 have been captured, while 119 are still at large.
Most of the prisoners who are still at large are involved in heinous crimes. The absconding prisoners include wildlife poachers, rapists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and criminals involved in dereliction of duty. In this way, insecurity and fear have spread in the society after prisoners who are serving their sentences and prisoners who are under remand escape without authorization.
