Former banker Anil Dubey, accused of killing his ex-colleague and grievously injuring another while trying to rob an ICICI Bank branch in Virar last year, slit his throat with a paper pin in a Crime Branch lock-up on Wednesday. Dubey had escaped from police custody when he was brought to a Vasai court last week. He was rearrested within 48 hours.

Dubey and his former inmate at Thane Central Prison, Chand Aziz Khan, who zoomed him away on a motorcycle from outside a Vasai court near a public toilet, were kept inside the lockup to record their statements as they were to be produced before the court on Thursday. A source told mid-day that Dubey was heard telling someone at Achole police lockup to pass him a blade from a desk. “But he was not given the blade at the police station. Then he was brought to the Crime Branch office where senior officers were supposed to question him and Khan around 4 pm,” said the source.