India, Jan. 10 -- A 32-year-old undertrial prisoner fled after jumping out of a police van at Rajiv Chowk on Delhi-Jaipur expressway while being transported to Bhondsi jail on Thursday evening, police said on Friday.

The inmate was identified as Hasam, who hailed from Punhana in Nuh.

Police said Hasam had seven cases of vehicle and property theft against him in Delhi and Gurugram. He had been granted bail in all six Gurugram cases, but was still in jail due to the Delhi theft case, officials said.

Police officials privy to the incident said Hasam was being transported back to the Bhondsi jail after he was produced in a Rohini court earlier that day.

"Hasam was meant to be shifted to Tihar jail, due to which a prisoner escort team of G...