India, Oct. 3 -- Agartala: The Tripura Government has suspended five officials posted at Dharmanagar Sub-Jail after six prisoners escaped in a daring jailbreak in North Tripura district on October 1.
According to an official from the Directorate of Prisons, five of the six fugitives were undertrial prisoners, while one, a Bangladeshi national, was serving a life sentence.
Police managed to recapture two prisoners in separate raids. They arrested Abdul Pata, an undertrial prisoner, on the same night.
They also arrested Narayan Chandra Datta, who was serving a life sentence for raping a minor, from Malakar Basti, an area located near the international border.
"He might have been trying to cross the border to evade arrest. We have also ar...