15 years after he fled from Vadodara after ‘immolating’ wife, man nabbed in Telangana village

Inspector JN Parmar of Jawaharnagar police station told The Indian Express that Lakshman was tracked down with the use of technology and human intelligence during the ongoing drive to look for accused who have been evading arrest in old, undetected cases.

Parmar said, “This was a 2010 murder case, registered in Jawaharnagar police station where the husband of a woman named Geeta was wanted for her murder… Lakshman and Geeta lived in a settlement near Ranoli railway colony and one day, he doused the woman with kerosene and set her afire, after they had a fight over his desire to bring home a second wife. Geeta was rushed to SSG hospital but succumbed to the burn injuries while Lakshman escaped.”

Parmar said that although the police had tried to look for him, absence of the “correct name” of his native village had meant that Lakshman managed to evade police arrest.

Parmar said, “When I began studying the case, we narrowed down on a region in Telangana and deployed our human sources. We got a fair idea that he had been living a different life in his native village after escaping from Vadodara… We then used technical intelligence to track down the exact village and dispatched a team to Dugunevelly. Lakshman was nabbed and brought to Vadodara, leading to detection of the case after 15 years.”