Seven inmates who had escaped from various jails across the country on September 8 and 9 during the Gen-Z protest were re-arrested in Jhapa. According to Inspector Prabin Shrestha of the District Police Office, five men and two women who had fled from the Central Jail in Sundhara, Kathmandu, the Sunsari Jail, the Jhumka Jail, and the Kaski Jail on September 16 were arrested in various parts of Jhapa.
Those arrested include Ruksar Khatun, 28, and Aksara Khatun, 28, of Gauradaha Municipality-5, who had escaped from Sundhara Jail. After the government issued a notice urging escaped inmates to return, both of them turned themselves in at the District Police Office.
Similarly, Dinesh Soren, 33, of Kankai Municipality-6, who had escaped from Kaski Jail was arrested from his own house. Police arrested him after receiving information from locals that he had returned home and was hiding there. Nawal Kishor, 23, who had fled and reached Kishangaunj in India via the southern border, was arrested by Indian police and handed over to the Area Police Office in Kechana as per Inspector Shrestha.
Likewise, Balbahadur Rai, 45, of Kankai Municipality-4, who had escaped from Jhumka Jail in Sunsari while serving time for a rape conviction, was handed over to police by his own family, police stated. Inspector Shrestha further said that two more inmates who had escaped from Sundhara Jail were also arrested, but their identities have been kept confidential.