Alwar:
Four under-trial men escaped police custody with the help of a group of 12 armed men from outside a court in Alwar, police said.
A police team had brought the prisoners in a vehicle to to the sessions court at Tijara in connection with a loot case.
As soon as the under-trials got down from the police vehicle, the armed men, who were waiting outside the court, surrounded them and took them away in a jeep, a senior police officer said.
The men also fired in the air to create panic, he said.