Kathmandu, July 12 -- Early Monday morning, police officers at the Bungamati Metropolitan Police Sector walked into a cell empty of its three inmates. There was no way the prisoners could have escaped through the door, as the gate always locked. When police looked closer, they discovered the prisoners' means of egress.
The bars over a ventilation window in the toilet adjoining the cell had been sawed away. The window was just large enough for one person to squeeze through. Rudra Lal Shrestha aka Bikash, Samsher Majhi and Rabi Kumar Timalsina had made a daring escape in the middle of the night.
Shrestha and Majhi had recently been arrested for robbing a house in Godawari on April 28 and burglarising an office in Lagankhel on June 11, while...