Sri Lankan national escapes from police custody in Tamil Nadu

 

A Sri Lankan national prisoner Riyaz Khan Razak (39) allegedly escaped from police custody while being escorted back to Puzhal prison from Madurai at Perani in Villupuram district in India on March 21, 2023 night.

Special teams mounted vigil at Sri Lankan Tamil refugee camps and settlements across the State to look for the escapee, police sources said.

Razak, lodged in Puzhal central prison, was taken to Madurai and produced in a Judicial Magistrate court in connection with a case registered against him by the South Gate police in 2019.

Police were investigating the antecedents of the suspect and his connections with other Sri Lankan nationals already arrested and lodged in prisons/Special Camp in other cases.