KHAIRPUR, Nov 19: Two teams of the district investigation police have completed an inquiry into the escape of three under-trial prisoners. Suleman Kaleri, Khamiso Sehto and Fayaz Chandio had escaped from the prisoners’ ward of the Khairpur Civil Hospital on Oct 23.

SP Javed Jiskani submitted the report to the regional police officer, Sukkur, through the Khairpur DPO.

The report said Khamiso Sehto was sent to the hospital for medical treatment by the Khairpur central jail superintendent on Oct 18 and Suleman Kaleri and Fayaz Chandio were sent to the hospital on Oct 22.

The duty officer at the hospital, Dr Azizur Rehman Soomro, examined Kaleri and found him normal after which he was sent back to the central jail. However, after about 15 minutes, the jail superintendent pressed the doctor to admit the prisoner to the hospital who did so, the report further said.

The report said facts and secret information collected during the course of the inquiry revealed that the jail superintendent seemed to be involved in engineering events that had enabled the prisoners to escape.

It said that after scrutiny of the jail record, it was found that registers used to record daily jail activities had been tampered with by jail authorities.

According to the report, the jail superintendent and the medical officer of the central jail had forged the jail record which showed that jail authorities, including the superintendent, were involved in the escape of the prisoners.

The inquiry officer has been directed in the report to include names of these officials in a case registered at the B-section police station, Khairpur.

When contacted on Saturday, SP Jiskani said police would write to the IG, prisons, for including the jail superintendent’s name in the case. He said there were reports of use of narcotics and facility of mobile phones in the central jail.

He alleged that police were arresting criminals but jail authorities were helping them to escape.

The jail superintendent, when contacted by telephone, said police were involving him in the case to save their skin and denied that he had phoned the doctor. He said that when prisoners were admitted to the civil hospital, information was given to the jail administration, adding that it had clearly been stated in the FIR that the incident had taken place due to police negligence.