1 Sada fugitive nabbed;Seby gives cops the slip
HERALD CORRESPONDENTS
CURCHOREM/VASCO, AUG 7
His escape to freedom lasted barely two days when Abhijit Patil, one of the three fugitives who had escaped from the Sada jail, was nabbed at an abandoned house in Kalay-Sanguem in the wee hours of Saturday.
The other fugitive, Seby Ferrao, who was also in the house, however, managed to escape from the police.
Patil along with Ferrao and Hitler Fernandes had escaped from the Sada Sub jail at about 2.30 am on Thursday after they drilled a hole through the toilet wall of the jail.
According to police from the Mormugao and Curchorem police stations, the three fugitives, after their jailbreak, walked along the railway track from Vasco to Bogmalo, from where they walked further to the Seraulim railway station.
Patil and Ferrao then boarded a local train to proceed to Kalay, while Fernandes stayed back at Seraulim.
When they reached Kalay, Ferrao went to a general store and purchased some groceries, before proceeding to the abandoned house of Patil’s uncle.
Exactly how the police came to know about the whereabouts of the two fugitives is unclear.
Mormugao police claim that some people in the locality noticed their photos in newspapers and alerted the Curchorem police of their presence in Kalay.
However, according to some locals from Kalay, the hideout could have gone unnoticed were it not for a tussle that allegedly broke out between the duo on Friday night.
Sources informed that the villagers reportedly overheard a fight between the duo and alerted the police of the incident.
As soon as police was informed that the two fugitives were at the house in Kalay, police teams led by DySP (Margao) Umesh Gaonkar, Curchorem PI Bhanudas Dessai, Sanguem PI Sagar Ekoskar, Quepem PI Sudesh Narvekar and Maina Curtorim PI Siddhant Shirodkar, rushed to the site at about 2.30 am, coincidentally around the same time of their escape two days earlier.
The police managed to nab Patil, but Ferraro managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
Later, with the permission of Quepem SDM, Patil was transferred to the Mormugao police and he was arrested under Section of 224 of IPC.
