Bengaluru: A man from Karnataka's Hassan district absconding for nearly 26 years on charges of theft, was finally arrested from a restaurant where he worked as a cook in Bengaluru today.
Deve Gowda, who hails from Aluru in Hassan was arrested in 1997 in a case of theft registered in Kamakshipalya police station. He however escaped and has been absconding since then. Although the court issued several warrants, Gowda could not be produced.
For the last 26 years, police have been searching for him across the state but failed to trace him. Following a tip-off received by Kamakshipalya Police, a team nabbed him at a restaurant near the court. Upon his arrest, he was brought to the Kamakshipalya police station.
Police said it has been found that the man had been working as a cook in the restaurant for the last many years. He has already been produced before the court, police added.
In November, a convict who was absconding after jumping parole 12 years back was arrested on the outskirts of Mumbai. The Mumbai sessions court had convicted the man under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in 2010. He was sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment and lodged in Nashik Road Central Jail.
The man was granted a 30-day parole in 2011. But, he never returned following which, a case was registered against him. Police recently got information that he was staying with his second wife in Mira Road and arrested him after setting a trap for him.
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