11 years on, 47-year-old man arrested for stealing two laptops

The Vadodara DCB pinned down Gaigawle’s location to Kalyan in Maharashtra, where he had been living for the past few years.

According to the FIR lodged at Vadodara’s Fatehgunj police station in April 2014, Gaigawle had been accused of an alleged theft of two laptops of his roommate, which had gone missing in February 2014.

The complaint states that Gaigawle had allegedly “committed a theft” of the two laptops between 1.30 and 2 pm on February 19, 2014, when the accused was living with the complainant as a room partner.

According to the police, a warrant to arrest Gaigawle had also been issued by a court under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) but the accused remained absconding.

Providing details of the incident, Police Inspector RG Jadeja said, “As part of the drive to track down the accused persons, who have been on the run for over 10 years, we have formed teams for several crimes… There are teams to also track down accused in offences that are not heinous. Accordingly, the accused was traced to Maharashtra in a theft case, lodged at Fatehgunj police station in 2014…”

“We tracked down his locations based on the technical surveillance, beginning with his past phone numbers,” said Jadeja

In 2014, Gaigawle had been booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 380 (punishment for theft). Jadeja said that the accused had been handed over to Fatehgunj police station to complete the process of his formal arrest and production in court in the case pending against him.