SWABI, Dec 11: An under-trial woman prisoner dodged the policemen on duty to escape from judicial lockup here on Saturday.

Nargas Bibi, the under-trial prisoner, was blamed for killing her husband SHO Rahat Ali on Sept 23, when they developed difference over his fourth marriage.

Abdul Bahri, superintendent of judicial lockup, told Dawn that there were four women prisoners in the lockup and a policewoman was guarding them. “I think she escaped from the jail before 7am. The way she used to flee the jail was not an easy one,” he said.

However, sources said that the prisoner escaped at night and the jail staff came to know about the incident in the morning.

“She climbed the jail building through a pipe, then passed through the barbed wire and descended to ground from the top of the jail edifice,” sources added.

They said that authorities were interrogating the three remaining prisoners and policewoman on duty.

Mr Bahri said that it was not yet clear whether the prisoner was helped by other inmates and policewoman or not.

However, an official said that it seemed that they assisted her in escaping.

This was the first case that a woman prisoner escaped from the jail, forcing police to raid various houses of her relatives.

Police failed to trace and re-arrest her, however, officials claimed that she could not hide for a long time and they would arrest her very soon.

“We are on track to locate her. We are tracing her,” said a police officer.