KOHIMA, August 28: Angry over lack of food, 38 undertrials, mostly drug addicts and people charged with petty crimes, escaped from the high security Mokokchung jail in Nagaland on Thursday night, police said yesterday. Ten of the fugitives, however, were immediately recaptured. The home secretary (police), CP Giri, said the undertrials fled the district jail by breaking open the main gate of the prison. He said the inmates were agitated over delayed supply of food since Wednesday. Things turned violent when no food could be served to them till 7 pm. Altogether 20 of the prisoners were rearrested by September 3.
Starving undertrials flee Nagaland jail
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