{"id":9479,"date":"2025-06-04T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2025-06-04T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:04:05","slug":"over-200-inmates-escape-from-malir-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9479","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 inmates escape from Malir Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
Taking advantage of the chaos during an earthquake, at least 216 prisoners escaped from Malir Jail on Monday midnight amidst firing by security guards.<\/p>\n

A robust search operation by the district and jail police and Rangers followed, during which 90 escapees were recaptured, while the rest are still at large.<\/p>\n

According to the police, the jail administration evacuated the prisoners from the barracks as a precautionary measure due to the potential danger following the earthquake.<\/p>\n

Over 1,000 prisoners gathered near the Mari Gate, causing a stampede. The prisoners took advantage of the situation, broke the locks of the Mari Gate, and started escaping by jumping over the jail walls.<\/p>\n

Jail police and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel tried to stop the prisoners by firing warning shots.<\/p>\n

However, one prisoner snatched a kalashnikov from a police officer and started firing indiscriminately, injuring two FC personnel and one police officer.<\/p>\n

Other prisoners also injured officials with stones and sticks and managed to escape. The intense firing caused panic in the area, and traffic on the National Highway was suspended.<\/p>\n

The road from Quaidabad to Malir Jail was closed, resulting in long queues of vehicles between Malir Kala Board and Quaidabad.<\/p>\n

A large contingent of District Malir police, Rangers, and FC reached the scene.<\/p>\n

The IG and DIG prisons, Superintendent of Jail, SSP Malir, and other senior officials also reached the site.<\/p>\n

The Sindh Home Minister, Zia ul Hassan Lanjar took notice of the incident and directed SSP Malir to take immediate action and arrest the escaped prisoners.<\/p>\n

He instructed effective measures, surveillance, intelligence, and roadblocks, and ordered strict departmental action against negligent officials.<\/p>\n

A house-to-house search was conducted in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

Locals captured videos of the escaping prisoners and shared them on social media, showing some shirtless prisoners fleeing barefoot and others escaping in six-seat rickshaws.<\/p>\n

In the initial search operation, 50 prisoners were arrested from the jail quarters, while Malir City police arrested 19 prisoners from different vehicles, and Sukhan police arrested eight others.<\/p>\n

The police also made announcements on mosque loudspeakers to inform the public about the prisoners’ descriptions. Identity cards were checked, and suspicious individuals were taken in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a woman took her son and his friend back to the jail, one of whom was a drug addict and reached home at 3:30am after escaping.<\/p>\n

The woman said, she gave them meal before taking them back to the jail.<\/p>\n

She is hopeful that her son would recover from drug addiction in the jail.<\/p>\n

IG Sindh Ghulam Nabi Memon also reached Malir Jail on Tuesday morning and received a briefing from the Superintendent on the situation.<\/p>\n

Most of the prisoners were jailed in narcotics cases, and several of them had psychological issues.<\/p>\n

Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has removed the Inspector General of Prisons and suspended the DIG Prisons and Malir Jail Superintendent over the incident.<\/p>\n

Shah termed the incident “completely unacceptable” and vowed to hold those responsible accountable, citing gross negligence by jail authorities.<\/p>\n

Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said announced that no strict action would be taken against prisoners who voluntarily return within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

However, those who fail to return, will be charged under the provisions of jailbreak, which carry a sentence of up to seven years in prison.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking advantage of the chaos during an earthquake, at least 216 prisoners escaped from Malir Jail on Monday midnight amidst firing by security guards. A robust search operation by the district and jail police and Rangers followed, during which 90 escapees were recaptured, while the rest are still at large. According to the police, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}