Surkhet, Nov 4: Police have arrested two more inmates who escaped from Dolpa District Jail, bringing the number of recaptured prisoners to four.
The two were found at the home of a local resident, Kamala Budha, in Rang village, Ward 4 of Tripurasundari Municipality. Police raided the house while searching for the inmates who fled the jail at around 6 am on Kartik 14.
The arrested men have been identified as Kaliprasad Rokaya, 29, of Tripurasundari Municipality-7, and Kapil Pariyar, 19, alias Kailash, of Nalgad Municipality-9 in Jajarkot.
Rokaya was serving an eight-year sentence for rape, while Pariyar was serving three years for burglary.
Police had earlier recaptured Rambahadur BK, 32, of Aathbiskot Municipality-10 in Rukum West, and Resham Rana, 28, of Kumakh Rural Municipality-5 in Salyan.
Santosh Singh Rathor, spokesperson for the Karnali Province Police Office in Surkhet, said four of the eight escapees had been arrested. Search operations are under way to locate the remaining four.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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