Sandeep Thakur whisked Sher Singh Rana out of the high security jail by posing as a constable of the Delhi police.
DIG Mukesh Prasad has been shifted as Director Technical Education with immediate effect and has been replaced by Devender Singh.
A report prepared by DIG, Haridwar, Ashok Kumar says Rana was involved in the Punjab National Bank dacoity at Ashley Hall in 1997.
A Delhi court had on March 5 given police the go-ahead to initiate proceedings to declare Sher Singh Rana a proclaimed offender after cops failed to trace him.
A Delhi court on Friday convicted key accused Sher Singh Rana in the 13-year-old sensational murder of bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi, who was then a Lok Sabha member, in front of her Ashoka Road residence.
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
Sher Singh Rana, the lone convict in the sensational murder of bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi in 2001, was on Thursday awarded life imprisonment by a Delhi court which also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on him.
'Dalits will only suffer in the days to come.'
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