KARACHI: An under-trial prisoner facing a murder and kidnapping case escaped from the Central Prison Karachi on Monday.

The prison officials believe that Mohammad Hafeez had managed to flee with the help of the jail administration.

His disappearance was noticed during the customary ‘roll call’ in the evening when jail staff realised that Hafeez was missing, said a senior official who wished not to be named.

Since, the inmate had escaped from inside the prison, he must have done so with the ‘connivance’ of the jail staff, he said.

New Town SHO Ejaz Khan told Dawn that no one from the prison had approached police so far for lodging an FIR pertaining to the escape.

Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal took notice of the incident and ordered suspension of Superintendent of the jail Murtaza Sheikh, an inquiry and lodging of an FIR against officials concerned.

Hafeez was arrested by Gizri police in 2013 on the charges of kidnapping and murder. His case is pending in a court.

Published in Dawn, February 16th, 2016