Accused flees from custody, FIR lodged against Ghaziabad cop

Ghaziabad | Friday | 13th July, 2018

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A manhunt was lodged, but he could not be found.Police said in the 2015 case, the accused had been earlier given a bail in the matter, but since then he was not appearing before the case. Hearing the case, the magistrate ordered that Singh be arrested and sent to jail from the court premises itself.Subsequently, constable Yogesh took Singh in his custody and while he had gone to the court’s room to complete the formality related to his arrest, the accused disappeared from the court premises. GHAZIABAD: An FIR was registered against a constable on Thursday evening after an accused fled from his custody from the District court premises a day earlier.The FIR has been registered under sections 223 and 224 of the IPC against constable Yogesh and the accused Gyan Singh who fled from the police custody.A report in this regard has been sent to the SSP office and the constable will probably be suspended, said police.According to the police, Gyan Singh, a resident of Dausa in Rajasthan and an accused in a 2015 case of forgery and criminal conspiracy registered at Loni Border police station, had appeared before the additional chief judicial magistrate court on Wednesday after the magistrate issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against him four months ago..