14 inmates of remand home escape; three traced

Dharwad, Karnataka, July 28 (UNI) As many as 14 inmates of a remand home here have escaped on Wednesday last and three of them have been arrested yesterday.

Police said today that the children, who had plotted the escape, started fighting with each other and when the security guard on duty came in to pacify them, they tied him with a blanket and assaulted him. They then fled the scene.

Search was on for the remaining children, police added.

According to Women and Child Welfare Deputy Director Malati Pol, the Home needed three guards, but there was none as one had retired, another met with a heart attack and the third had quit the job. For the time being, an employee of the department was posted as a guard in the Home. He too was drunk when the boys attacked him, before escaping from the Home, she added.

The traced three boys said they had no option, but to run away as they were not given proper food and beaten up, if complained.

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