A 25-year-old man accused in a murder case who escaped from judicial custody in Uttar Pradesh in 2022 has been traced to Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday, reported news agency PTI.
Pravin @ Pradeep Aamajor Pal, a resident of Inayatnagar in Ayodhya, had been arrested by the Ramkola police in UP`s Kushinagar in a case registered there under Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder) and 506 (criminal intimidation), Panvel Town police station`s senior inspector Nitin Thackeray said, reported PTI.
A magistrate in Kushinagar then remanded the murder case accused to judicial custody.
On November 1, 2022, when he was being taken for treatment to the district hospital in Deoria, he escaped from police custody and was untraceable since then, the official said, reported PTI.
The police subsequently registered a case against him under IPC sections 223 (escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant) 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) and also announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for finding him, reported PTI.
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During the probe into the case, the Special Task Force (STF) at Varanasi in UP got information that the accused was spotted in Panvel area of Navi Mumbai and hence they sought the help of their counterparts here, the official said, reported PTI.
A police team from UP also reached Navi Mumbai to search for him.
The Panvel police and the STF Varanasi nabbed the murder case accused near Panvel railway station on Tuesday, Thackeray said.
The STF team took him to UP on Wednesday, the official said.
In another case, a 48-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra has allegedly been cheated to Rs 1.92 crore in online share trading following which police have registered a case against four persons, an official said on Thursday, reported PTI.
The accused lured the victim into online trading of shares with a promise of good returns on her investments.
The victim, resident of Vashi area, made payments of Rs 1,92,49,200 into some bank accounts over the last two months, Cyber police station`s senior inspector Gajanan Kadam said, reported PTI.
However, when she asked for the returns and the invested amount, the accused gave evasive replies and also avoided her calls.
Following her complaint, the police on Wednesday registered a case against four persons under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, the official said, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
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