After hearing the prosecution arguments, the Court gathered that the accused are well-educated and some of them had Engineering and MBA degrees.
On how the prisoners prepared for their escape from Sabarmati Central Prison, the Court noted,
“…accused No.1 (Hafizhusain) was the Civil Engineer, who took the measurement from the distance from jail to outside jail and planned as to how long and deep the tunnel would be. It is further alleged that all the other accused got the equipment to dig-up the tunnel, cover it up if any jail officer visited, distract them etc., and to understand the technique of digging up the tunnel where the accused had got four books from library.”
The prisoners had dug the tunnel between October, 11 2012 and February 12, 2013, until the jail officer found it.
“The officers found out that a big tunnel was dug up near the water-tank behind the big tree which was approximately six feet deep and around 196 feet long, which is outside the jail campus,” the Court noted.
Source: Barandbench
