Mumbai: Wanted criminals run straight into police net after years

In a major crackdown on criminals on the run the Colaba police this year have arrested nine criminals absconding for six years to two decades These criminals were wanted in cases of kidnapping cheating and forgeryThey had appointed a team of four police officers who worked roundtheclock and managed to arrest them with just a couple of leads in handWeve apprehended nine accused involved in various criminal activities including kidnapping forgery and cheating Our team tracked them through a combination of human intelligence and technical investigationOnce we obtained a breakthrough we pursued and apprehended them swiftly said a police officer involved in the recent arrest of one of the wanted criminalsAccording to the police many of these accused were arrested in the initial stage of investigation However during the pendency of the case in the court the undertrials would jump bail and flee the city When the investigation officer got transferred some of the absconding accused would continue to remain on the wanted list for perpetuityHence a dedicated team was appointed in the beginning of the year to nab the wanted criminalsAPI Deepak Shelke ASI Dinesh Patil head constable Laxman Kulkarni head constable Pravin Bangre and woman police constable Ashwini Patil have nabbed all the wanted criminals despite starting off with scant cluesTheir exemplary work is commendable said Colaba senior police inspector Vijay Hastikar while speaking to midday28Period in years one of accused was on the runDastigar Shaikh 63Shaikh who had been on the run since he was 35 was involved in a kidnapping case The police had traced his original address to Cuffe Parade but he had shifted somewhere else The police with the help of human intelligence apprehended Shaikh from Musafirkhana Mumbai on February 23Flynn Remedios 60According to the police he was wanted by many police stations He had been booked in a case of rape and molestation His address with the police led them to Malvani but the building was demolished The police checked his Facebook account and subsequently apprehended him from Raksha Hospital MaladNisar Murad 62Murad was accused of committing fraud in a watch company where he worked Murad had kept some watches from bulk orders for himself He was booked in a case of cheating in 1991 Though his address available with the police was mentioned as Worli the police arrested him from Mira Road on April 26Chandrakant Khamkar 66Khamkar was involved in a case of cheating lodged in 2000 He misled the court by providing fake guarantors for alleged accused individuals aiding them in securing bail Despite changing his address multiple times the police apprehended him from Virar on March 7Narayan Gavand 50The Cuffe Parade police had booked Gavand in 2006 for selling illicit liquor According to the police the Cuffe Parade police had also registered a case of gambling against him The police didnrsquot find Gavand at his address in Kalyan Based on a tipoff the police arrested him from a bar in ColabaVivekarvind Dixit 60Dixit used to dupe youngsters under the pretext of providing a job He forged signatures on appointment letters and had provided these letters to his victims A case under 420 for cheating had been registered against him in 2005 The police tracked him and nabbed him from Pune on October 13Parakattu Vasu Krishna Nair 61Nair faced charges related to Intellectual Property Rights violation dating back to 1987 for selling pirated CDs of films He had been absconding for 25 years the police traced his original address but he wasnrsquot there With the help of sources the police traced his brotherrsquos address in Mira Road but Nair had left his brotherrsquos residence The police then traced his phone number and nabbed him from a hotel in JJ Marg on September 12 Nair had confessed to his crime and had told the police he worked with a travel firmSunny Singh 32 and Harish Rawat 36The two friends were involved in a fight that had broken out between two groups over a football match A case had been registered against the duo in 2010 under section 325 for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and intentional insult The police had traced Rawatrsquos phone number and had apprehended him from Antop Hill Based on Rawatrsquos information the police arrested Singh from a Juhu hotel They were arrested on the same day on September 26