Police who raided brothel surprised to find four fellow officers and prisoner they were guarding

Police in West Bengal, India, were surprised when during a raid on a red light area in Asansol they discovered four constables along with a convicted murderer whom they were supposed to be guarding. The four constables had been tasked with transporting the murderer from a jail in Jharkhand to hospital for a check-up, but the policemen decided to make a 206-kilometre detour to visit the red-light district.

On Friday, the police personnel had escorted the prisoner, serving a seven-year prison term for murder, for a health check-up at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi. However, instead of returning to the jail in Koderma, the constables took the prisoner to a red light area at Kulti in Asansol, a border township in neighbouring West Bengal, which is a three-hour drive by road.



Jail sources their act came to light only after a team of Asansol police raided the red light area and arrested the policemen, who carried arms, but sported civil dress. The prisoner, identified as Baiju Yadav, who managed to escape during the raid, then made his own way back to the jail on Friday night and told authorities that he was “forcibly” taken to the red light area, jail sources said.

The four police personnel, who are said to have been drunk at the time of the raid, are in custody of Asansol police. “We have directed a probe in the matter and the four policemen have been suspended until further notice,” said DK Pandey, Jharkhand’s director general of police. Police said that despite the “humourous side” to the incident, it had raised serious questions about jail security, especially the fact that the prisoner was allowed back into the prison without his guards.