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Escape from court: Police officers did not perform their duties properly

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HQC

As a result of investigative and judicial actions carried out during the preliminary investigation of a criminal case investigated in RA Special Investigation Service it was grounded that RA Police officers Armen Khachatryan and Sargis Vardanyan didn’t properly performed their service duties and consequently the person under arrest managed to escape from the court hall. In particular, during the preliminary investigation of a criminal case investigated concerning official negligence by the police officers of RA Police carrying out a special state service it was grounded that Spartak Danielyan, the defendant on the criminal case examined in general jurisdiction court of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts, was under arrest in “Nubarashen” penitentiary of RA Ministry of Justice and on 5 April 2016 at about 17:30 after the another court trial, when RA Police officers A. Khachatryan and S. Vardanyan, without the allowance of the head, left the cell provided to keep the detainees and deviated the execution of service, thus S. Danielyan opened the closed door of the cell and without any obstacles left the cell provided for convicts and detainees and left from the back door of the court’s administrative building through jumping over the enclosure, thus escaped and have illegally stayed in freedom for 24 days. As a result of operative-reconnaissance measures performed by the officers of general department of criminal reconnaissance of RA police, S. Danielyan, accused of having committed a grave crime, was founded on 29 April 2016 and arrested. A charge was brought against officers of RA Police Armen Khachatryan and Sargis Vardanyan under part 1 of Article 315 of RA Criminal Code. The preliminary investigation of a criminal case is over in RA Special Investigation Service. The case coupled with the indictment was submitted to the prosecutor conducting judicial control to confirm and send it to court.