The police in Maharashtra's Beed district apprehended the leader of a gang of robbers, who had been on the run for 14 years, an official said.

The police have recovered stolen gold worth Rs 2.24 lakh from the accused Sikandar Akhtar Sayyed, who has 35 cases of housebreaking, thefts and robberies to his name, local crime branch chief Subhash Bhujang said. Sikandar had formed a gang, whose modus operandi was that they entered homes by breaking windows, the official said.