Fed up of a history-sheeter’s threats and crimes, local residents of MIDC in Andheri grabbed him and took him to the police station recently when they found he had raped a woman. The police have arrested him after they assured the woman of her safety and she revealed what happened. The accused, earlier booked for eight offences including two murders, was out on bail. 

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He has allegedly spread terror across the MIDC area by threatening to kill whoever goes against him. On December 18, local residents grabbed the accused, Pruthvi Walmiki alias Ballu, and took him to the police station. They alleged that he had raped a woman after threatening to kill her parents. The police contacted the woman and assured her no one would come to harm and convinced her to tell them what had happened. She then revealed she was raped on December 16.