Bathinda, April 25 -- A Mansa district court on Wednesday convicted the sacked Mansa CIA in-charge sub-inspector Pritpal Singh of 'acting negligently' that led to the escape of gangster Deepak alias Tinu from police custody in October 2022.

Rubbishing police theory of a 'well-planned conspiracy' behind the crime, the court awarded a jail term of a year and 11 months, along with a Rs.5,000 fine, to Pritpal.

Tinu, a close associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, escaped custody on intervening night of October 1 and 2 and was arrested from Ajmer by Delhi Police special cell on October 19 of the same year.

In his 85-page judgment, judicial magistrate 1st class (JMIC) Karan Aggarwal picked holes in the police version and rejected clai...