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NEW DELHI: When it seemed that Sher Singh Rana, prime accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case, would yet again give them the slip, the rain gods came to the rescue of the Special Cell of the Delhi police in Kolkata on Monday. It is learnt that despite knowing that Rana had been spotted several times in the Dharamtalla area of Kolkata, the police team was finding it difficult to track him down. "On at least three occasions, we missed him by just a few minutes. We also did not know where he had been staying," said a police officer. On Monday evening, Rana went out to make a phone call. But due to a sudden heavy downpour, he could not immediately return to his hotel, Blue Moon, and took shelter in the public booth for a while. "It gave us the opportunity to rush to the public booth in time," said the police officer, adding that if the team had missed this chance, there was every possibility that Rana would have escaped to Bangladesh as he had already got his visa validity extended for six more months. During interrogation, Rana allegedly disclosed that he hatched the conspiracy to escape from Tihar Central Jail here after he noticed that the jail authorities were not very strict in giving custody of inmates to police escorts for production in courts. After he fled to Bangladesh, he bought a satellite phone for Rs. 16,500 so that he could contact his relatives and friends without being tracked. Throughout his journey -- from Moradabad to Ranchi, Kolkata, Bangladesh and Dubai to Afghanistan, -- he kept getting about Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000 per month as personal expense allegedly from the accomplices of an Uttar Pradesh-based criminal Subhash Thakur. After being brought to the Capital, Rana was produced in a Tis Hazari court on Tuesday. He has been remanded to eight-day police custody. The police are interrogating him to find out who all harboured him after he escaped from Tihar jail and whether he was involved in any other criminal activity.
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