"Days Of Preparations": How Notorious Rapist Govindachami Escaped From Kannur Central Jail? (Photo on Facebook Bibin Kumar K A)

Kannur. Kerala: The notorious criminal and 2011 rape-murder convict Govindachami was caught hours after he managed to escape from Kannur Central Jail on Friday. The police located the rapist hiding in a well near an abandoned building. Notably, people continue to wonder how Govindachami, who has lost his left hand, escaped from a high-security cell of the central prison in Kerala.

While speaking to the media, police flagged suspicion that there could be days of meticulous planning and preparations behind the his escape from the jail, citing preliminary evidences. Kannur city police commissioner Nithin Raj said that there could be the possibility of at least 20 days of preparation to escape from the jail.

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Local media have reported that the rape convict had allegedly reduced his weight before the prison break by eating only Chapatis. The criminal might have done so to make it easier for him to overcome the hurdles of the fenced compound wall of the prison. Surprisingly, Govindachami had allegedly pasted salt into the iron cells to melt them, reported Media One.

Over days, the rape convict allegedly managed to weaken the bars of the jail cell, undetected by the police, with users on social media suggesting the escape attempt resembled the 1994 crime thriller, The Shawshank Redemption. He has told the police that a co-inmate in the jail gave him a blade with which he cut iron bars of the cells, while it was raining, by being about its noises. The rape convict took nearly 45 days to slowly reach his eventual point.

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​Several, including the mother of the rape victim, have raised the suspicion that someone from inside the jail might have helped the rapist to come out of the cells and escape from the highly secured wall of the central jail, ruling out the possibility of the convict’s sole role in the incident.

However, following the serious security issue, three prison officers have been suspended with immediate effect in connection with the jailbreak of Govindachami, as per an order issue by DIG (Prisons), North Zone.