The brothers Tirupati and Meenாட்சிசுந்தaram, who had escaped from the Theni district prison, surrendered at the Koodalur police station. In this situation, all 17 people who escaped from the prison have been caught.
The Theni district prison is located in Thekkampatti near Andipatti. This prison has space for only 200 inmates. However, 332 prisoners are being held there.
Meanwhile, around 10 p.m. on Monday night, fellow inmates informed that undertrial prisoner Muthu Ilangovan in the third cell had suffered a seizure.
Following this, the third warder, Stalin Prabhu, went to that cell and checked it. At that time, 17 people, including Muthu Ilangovan, who were in that cell, attacked Stalin Prabhu and then tried to escape. The guard on duty at the main entrance, Thangapandi, stopped them. However, they attacked him too, snatched the key from him, opened the entrance gate, and fled.
Following this, surveillance was intensified across the district, and the road used by vehicles in the prison, as well as key locations, were brought under police control.
Subsequently, the escaped undertrial prisoner Naveen surrendered at the prison again in the early hours of Tuesday. While the police were searching for the other prisoners, they arrested Silambarasan from Devaram, Raja Sikandar from Melamadai in Madurai, and Rajkumar from Sundararajapuram, who were roaming in the Thirumalapuram hill area.
Following this, around 1 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, when prisoner Linga Prasad got into an auto and left on the road opposite the prison, police personnel on patrol arrested him.
Meanwhile, police monitored the hilly area behind the prison using a drone. At that time, they arrested eight people who were roaming in the hilly area: Solai Mugileswaran from Chinthamani, Madurai; Karuppasamy from Sundararajapuram; Karthik Raja from Jayanthapuram; Nishanth from Thirupparankundram; Muthu Ilangovan from Vadipatti; Tharunkumar from Sivangai; Pandichelvam from Thiruvadanai in Ramanathapuram district; and Sabarinathan from Dathagapatti, Salem. In addition, police arrested two more people today.
In this situation, the brothers who escaped from Theni prison, Meenakshisundaram from the Madurai Housing Board colony and Thirupathi from Madurai, surrendered at the Gudalur police station today.
It is noteworthy that while 15 of the 17 escapees had already been arrested and the police were searching for the remaining ones, these two surrendered.
