This is regarding the escaping of prisoners from the newly built Colvale Prison which according to the concerned authorities was constructed with all the modern amenities to prevent the prisoners from escaping and yet surprisingly the prisoners are escaping with regular intervals indicating something is wrong with the security system or security personnel whose hand in allowing the prisoners to escape, I suspect because in India anything bad can happen. Don’t we remember how in Delhi some years back a few Atomic Scientists passed on to our enemies Atomic secrets?
Escaping of prisoners from the prison is not new in Goa. I remember somewhere in 1958, 2 Pakle prisoners escaped from the very tight security prison of Aguada. According to the information given then, 2 Pakle prisoners were lodged in one room and having seen one wall of their prison a bit weak, they both started urinating on the weaker area of that wall till it collapsed on one fine late evening paving them the way to flee, but where? To Portugal? Then manhunt started all over Sinquerim and even in Candolim reaching even to my place, by the different teams of security personnel comprising one Paklo from Aguada and one Goan Policeman.
So far three prisoners have escaped from the Colvale Prison thus making a mockery of the security system of India, the third is the recent one named as Yallapa surprising the prison authorities to ponder how he could jumped over the tall prison walls? It looks to me that he must have been an expert in climbing over the tall walls of the prison just as Jean Valgean the prisoner escaped by climbing the prison wall as depicted in his great epic Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Jean Valgean had expertise in climbing the tall walls by crawling on the walls with his back to the walls. May be Yallapa is having such an expertise.
A.Veronica Fernandes.