A 57-year-old man who allegedly grievously assaulted a woman in 1993 and absconded all these years ran out of luck after the Samta Nagar police dusted off a few old files to renew their focus on pending cases. The cops nabbed Rama Shankar Kale on October 20 after posing as milkmen, vegetable vendors, courier boys and postmen to zero in on him.

The police said Kale was on the most wanted list of the Mumbai police after he attacked a woman with a chopper and iron rod in 1993. “He was picked up by our special squad team which has been formed only to solve cases that have been pending for years,” said Narendra Shinde, senior inspector of Samata 
Nagar police.