PESHAWAR, Sept 10: Police on Friday arrested an innocent youth from the premises of the judicial complex to complete the headcount after an under-trial prisoner escaped from their custody. A head-constable, Khushdil Khan, has been suspended and put in the quarter-guard and a case has been registered against him and absconder Gul Rehman.

The accused along with other under-trial prisoners had been brought to the judicial complex from the Peshawar Central prison from where he slipped away.

When the constable came to know about the absence of the accused he took into custody a poor boy, Sarbaz, who used to run errands for visitors in return of a few rupees.

The constable put him in the judicial lock-up. Sources claimed that when prison personnel were taking the under-trial prisoners back to the central prison they had learned that Gul Rehman was missing. Yet, they took Sarbaz to the prison.