India, Nov. 14 -- A death row convict, lodged in the Ludhiana Central Jail, escaped from the emergency wing of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, on Tuesday night, exposing major lapses in prison security.

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Convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old girl, Sonu Singh, 29, managed to slip out of the handcuffs, pushed a jail warden and easily fled the hospital premises on foot before the Punjab Police officials accompanying him could react.

According to police, the convict, hailing from Tasai in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, had been undergoing psychiatric assessment at the hospital for some time.

On Tuesday, he complained of severe abdominal pain at the...