Theni jailbreak: all 17 escaped prisoners back in custody

All 17 prisoners who escaped from Tamil Nadu's Theni sub-jail on October 26 are back in custody. On Wednesday, police used drones to catch P Ponmuthuselvam and R Rejin in dense forest near the Kottaipatti foothills, while brothers K Thirupathy and K Meenakshi Sundaram surrendered at Cumbum police station. Seventeen special teams had been formed for the manhunt.