VASCO: A lifer who escaped from Aguada jail five years ago was caught in Karnataka on Friday and brought back to the prison in Goa on Saturday by a police team from Mormugao police station.
Prahlad Patil, 52 now, was arrested in a murder case in Curchorem-Sanvordem in 1997, and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2005, a jail-appointed special committee released him on parole for 15 days.
Under parole rules, Patil, then a resident of Sada, was required to report everyday at the local police station. He, however, disappeared soon after being released on parole.
While his brother filed a missing person's complaint, Mormugao police placed advertisements offering a reward of Rs 50,000 for any information on Patil's wherabouts.
Recently, the Mormugao police received a tip-off that Patil, by now a resident of Haridwar, was seen at his wife's place in Bagalkot in Karnataka. "He has completely changed how he looks, which is why we couldn't trace him for so long," said Mormugao PI Rajan Nigle.
The two-member police team that arrested Patil in Bagalkot included PSI Prashal Desai and hawaldar Malik Arjun. The case was closely monitored by the SP Southm said Nigle, who added that Patil has been handed back to central jail authorities at Aguada.
Explaining the parole process, Nigle said this is done so that prisoners serving a life sentence get a chance to meet their families. (TNN)
What's the idea of slamming the doors on a murderer/s if the Goa Police has to let them loose to visit their families? Indian (or is it Goa's) criminal code of justice seems a joke to me and the Interior minister the Joker of the highest order.
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