Jammu: Police on Friday (April 30) arrested an absconder wished in a 33-year-old rape case in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district, officers stated. Ghulam Mohd alias Gulla of Kherkote Banihal was underground and on the run for the final 33 years after registration of a rape and abduction case in opposition to him in police station Mahore, they stated.
On a selected info, the wished legal was arrested from Srinagar metropolis, they stated. The accused absconder after committing the crime in 1988 was consistently evading arrest by altering his location and identification, the officers stated. A chargesheet had been produced in opposition to him in the court docket of regulation, they stated.
A warrant was issued by the court docket of principal district and classes choose in Udhampur on 22/06/1989 and is executed after his arrest from the Kashmir valley, they stated. While tracing footprints of the crime, the Reasi Police developed a selected enter relating to the accused’s presence in Safakadal space of Srinagar and arrested him with the assistance of Srinagar Police, the officers stated.
Other accused in the case together with Amkala, Ghulam Mohd Sheikh and Sonaullah of Kherkote, tehsil Banihal have been arrested lengthy again. They have secured bail from the court docket, they stated.Â
