Pocso convict vaults and flees Trichy jail

A 25-year-old convict named Rajkumar, serving sentence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, broke free from the Central Prison in Tiruchy by vaulting over the compound wall while on a morning labour assignment, prompting a full-scale manhunt.

- HD Bureau

Prison authorities routinely engage inmates in tasks outside their cells, and on that morning Rajkumar was assigned to poultry work along with other prisoners. During the work period, he reportedly scaled the boundary wall undetecte