New Delhi, July 2 (PTI) An undertrial prisoner escaped after being presented at Tis Hazari court here, police said today.

Babu Khan, had been brought to room number 366 of Tis Hazari Court for a hearing in an Arms Act case and he fled from there, a police official said, adding the accused was named in nine cases, including one of murder.

In the Arms Act case, he had been declared a proclaimed offender and had been recently arrested, he said.

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