Gorakhpur:
A prisoner today escaped from custody after administering his police escorts with a substance that made them unconscious.
Undertrial Balijinder alias Balli, a resident of Amritsar, was presented in court in connection with a case, police said in Gorakhpur.
He and the constables accompanying him went to a tea stall after which he forced them to inhale the substance, they said, adding that the prisoner fled from the scene when the constables fell unconscious.
An FIR for negligence of duty has been registered against the constables. Further investigations are on, they said.