A notorious criminal described as a “desperate contract killer” has escaped from the hands of his police escorts in India after poisoning the food he offered them according to a Sky News report.

The incident occurred at the busy Old Delhi Railway Station in the capital on Wednesday as Vikram Paras, 27, was being escorted back from a Court appearance.

Paras, allegedly involved in dozens of cases of murder, extortion and robbery, was being brought back to Delhi by train after a court appearance at Bhatinda in neighbouring Punjab state.

Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said: “He is a desperate contract killer. We have launched an investigation based on the information that we have as of now. We are hopeful of nabbing him soon.”

Mr Bhagat said police were still trying to establish exactly what happened, after three of his guards were found unconscious at the railway station while the fourth was found dazed in a nearby street.

Railway police officer Surender Singh said: “They were mostly incoherent when a police team reached them.”

Paras offered food to the four officers at the station, which his accomplices had contaminated with drugs, before stealing their guns and fleeing, according to the Times of India.

The newspaper wrote: “Four of his accomplices were probably trailing him, possibly in police uniform, and were ready at the station with an SUV.

“They would have supplied the sedated food as well.”

The newspaper said this was not the first time that Mr Paras, who had been in custody since his arrest in March, has escaped his police guards.

In 2012, Paras, who gained notoriety as the right-hand man of a now slain criminal gang lord, fled after “luring his escorts into a store on the promise of buying them branded apparel”, the newspaper said.



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