RANCHI: Three Jharkhand policemen escorting a murder accused to Koderma jail were arrested from an Asansol brothel on Thursday night. A fourth member of the escort party spent the night at home with out leave. The prisoner under their charge took a train, returned to his prison in Koderma and narrated the story to the jail authorities.The four policemen have been suspended.

The four-man escort was taking undertrial Bajju Yadav, 40, back to Koderma jail after he underwent treatment at a Ranchi hospital. On their way back, Hawildar Amanat Khan, constables Santosh Kumar and Dhaananjay Kumar Singh decided to spend the night in a brothel at Naubatpur, Asansol. Constable Madan Kumar preferred his family's company and went home. The plan was to leave for Koderma next morning. The three policemen were in plainclothes and aroused no suspicion at the brothel. But as luck would have it, they got caught in a Bengal Police raid that evening. The men who had firearms on them were taken into custody.

Prisoner Yadav did what was honourable. He boarded the train to Koderma from Asansol railway station, went to the jail and spilled the beans. “Yadav narrated the story to the jail au thorities, who informed us about the shameful incident,“ Koderma SDPO Nausad Alam said. A source ES later informed that Yadav told jail authorities: “I restrained myself while the policemen had fun.“

On Thursday evening, the policemen had left Ranchi with the prisoner, ate and drank at a roadside Hazaribag eatery . The drunk men then felt the urge to “enjoy“ and asked their driver to head for Asansol. “They were planning to leave Asansol early Friday and reach Koderma by 10am,“ a police officer said.

