Mumbai, August 15: A gangster managed to flee police custody after his wife entered into an arrangement with police to spend private time.The gangster escaped custody as two constables, who allegedly took a bribe, stood guard at the hotel where the wife and the gangster met.

According to reports, 30-year-old Hanuman Patil was taken out from Taloja jail on Monday to take part in the probe about how he escaped. On February 11, he was brought for a medical exam to JJ Hospital. The police escort team had accepted the bribe to help him spend some private time with his wife. They took him to a hotel and stood guard at the door and back window. However, the criminal gave them a slip. The constables cooked up a story of escape. A case was registered against Patil of escaping custody.

Patil had been lodged in jail in 2013 for the murder of a man over a property dispute. He escaped in February but was nabbed in Uttar Pradesh recently.

“Investigations have revealed that the constables took Patil and his wife Monali in a taxi to Brightway Hotel at Maulana Shaukat Ali Road in Grant Road. They booked a first-floor room for three hours for Patil while Monali paid the money. It was around 3 pm that Patil and his wife entered the room. While one constable stood outside the room, the other took position outside the hotel,” an investigating officer told the Times of India.