A 32-year-old woman, accused of theft, who had escaped from the custody of MIDC Police Station, Andheri, has been traced and arrested by the police from Sambhajinagar.

According to the police, the accused, Divya Vasant Kale alias Muskan Pawar, 32, a resident of Lasur in Sambhajinagar district (Aurangabad), had been caught red-handed by locals while allegedly stealing a mobile phone from a house in the MIDC area. She was handed over to the police on Thursday.