Indore:
Police have announced a reward of Rs 5,000 to arrest the convict who slipped from the Central Jail here after climbing the prison boundary walls, two days ago.
"We are trying hard to arrest Raju Bhuwan Singh (25) and in this connection we have announced a reward of Rs 5,000 to any person who passes on information to us regarding his whereabouts," a top police official, said.
Raju had raped and brutally killed three women in separate incidents in 2009 and was awarded life imprisonment in two cases by the concerned courts. He is being tried in one case.
This is the second time when Raju escaped from judicial custody, police said adding that he gave them a slip on November 24, 2009 after he was produced in the local court.
He was later arrested then.