Three inmates escaped from a remand home in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Friday, a police officer said.
The juveniles, lodged in the remand home located within Gumla police station limits in connection with different cases, including under the POCSO Act, escaped in the early hours of the day, he said.
“The trio escaped taking advantage of the darkness. They used bedsheets to scale the boundary wall and flee," sub-inspector Kundan Chaudhary of Gumla police station said.
He said two of the escapees were 17-year-old boys from Lohardaga district who had been arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, while the third was a 14-year-old boy from Gumla district.
Police have launched a search operation to trace the juveniles, the officer added.
