ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: Escape, disappearance and reported arrest of murder accused Roohullah in Dubai looked more a dark drama when investigators found in the pillow of the hospital bed from where he fled last Sunday seven cheques signed by him.

Sources in the Islamabad and Rawalpindi police told Dawn that the cheques were drawn on different banks in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar. Five of them mentioned no amount while two were for Rs500,000 and Rs25,000.

Investigators working on the case suspect the cheques were meant for people in police, Adiala jail and the Rawalpindi District Headquarters Hospital to help him escape. The Rawalpindi police are collecting details of his bank accounts and transaction. It would have been an elaborate escape plan as within few hours after his disappearance was noticed at the hospital, a Roohullah flew out of Islamabad airport to Dubai and reportedly arrested there late on Monday by the Interpol on the request of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

But the Islamabad police, while confirming that the airport CCTV had caught the escaped Roohullah early Sunday hours, believe the man arrested in Dubai was a decoy, not the real Roohullah.

Rawalpindi police also feel the Roohullah who flew to Dubai had a suspicious background and might have been a plant, and travelled on dubious documents.

Police sources say a case was registered against three personnel of Islamabad police, along with the staff of hospital and Adiala jail, on charges of PPC 223, 224 and 109 along with 155 of Police Order 2002 following the escape of prisoner Roohullah who was being tried for murder of a former advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Roohullah was lodged in Adiala jail, but had been put in Rawalpindi DHQ Hospital for some treatment, which sources say could have been provided inside the jail.

A Joint investigation team of Islamabad price under AIG Tahir Alam Khan is also inquiring into the violation of Prison Rules by the jail administration. But the jail authorities pleaded ignorance about the Standard Operational System that demanded them to seek permission from Islamabad administration to shift the prisoner to a Rawalpindi hospital.

Police sources claimed Roohullah enjoyed VIP protocol in the jail. He was allowed the use of two mobiles, and meals and clothes delivered from home. There was no bar on the number of his visitors in the jail. Though it is difficult to pin evidence on the jail staff, the sources said such undue favours were not given without a vested interest.

Sources close to the investigation told Dawn that the probe so far had revealed that the accused was brought to DHQ Hospital on July 16 where he underwent endoscopy and blood tests for PCR (Polymers Chain Reaction) test. Medicines were prescribed which could have been provided in the Adiala Jail too.

But he was not discharged from the hospital. On July 18 Adiala jail authorities asked the doctors to send Roohullah back as there was no need to keep him there under observation of doctors.

Last year too the accused was taken to Pims hospital in Islamabad and stayed there for three months for treatment of hepatitis. At that time the jail authority had followed Prison Rules, which it violated on second occasion.

A Rawalpindi police officer said that Roohullah son of Jannat Gul, who flew to Dubai a few hours after the escape of murder accused Roohullah son Mohammad Ilyas wem two diffemnt persons.

The officer said that Roohullah son of Jannat Gul arrived in capital on July 28 and flew to Dubai the following night. He had a suspicious background and travelled to Dubai on dubious documents.

According to him the Rawalpindi police requested the FIA to catch him at Dubai airport with the help of Interpol. He was in custody and legal process was underway to bring him back. On his return the Islamabad police will take him into custody.Officer of Rawalpindi and Islamabad police associated with the investigation, had no explanation to offer why the Rawalpindi police reached the airport in search of Roohullah so soon after his escape.