The Meghalaya government has set up two panels to investigate a jailbreak and the subsequent lynching of four of the six fugitives by villagers in the State’s West Jaintia Hills district.
Stating this at the 60-member Assembly on September 12, Meghalaya Home Minister Lakhmen Rymbui said a mob of about 5,000 people battered the four escapees — three undertrial prisoners and a convict — to death on September 11, less than 24 hours after they escaped from the Jowai district jail.
Five Jowai jail officials, including head warden C. Kynjing, have been arrested in connection with the jailbreak, he informed the House.
