Meerut (UP): Six gangsters in a Scorpio vehicle today waylaid a police sub-inspector and four other policemen near a railway station in Baghpat district and escaped with a prisoner by throwing chilli powder in their eyes.

 
The prisoner Amit alias Bhoora was brought from Dehradun jail for production before a court in Baghpat. A police SI and four policemen were escorting him.
 
When the train reached Agrawal Mandi Tatiri railway station, the policemen alongwith the prisoner were boarding an auto, when the gangsters in a Scorpio vehicle waylaid them.
 
The gangsters  threw chilli powder in the eyes of the policemen, and began firing in the air to scare away passersby.
 
They snatched 2 AK-47 rifles and a self-loading rifle, before making their escape with the prisoner.
 
Baghpat police immediately put barricades around the town, but the gangsters had already escaped by then.
 
Alok Sharma, IG, Meerut Zone, said, police would soon round up Amit and the other gangsters.
 
Sources said, underworld don Sunil Rathi, presently incarcerated inside a jail in Uttarakhand had masterminded this escape.
 
Amit alias Bhoora was involved in firing outside Roorkee jail, in order to kill another gangster Chinoo. Three persons were killed in that incident.