A 24 -year -old man has been arrested for killing a woman in Thane district of Maharashtra. The woman was killed about 10 months ago and since then the absconding accused person has been arrested. The police gave this information on Sunday.
On the basis of a secret information, an official said, Raju Mahendra Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from Indore city of Madhya Pradesh on Friday. He said that the accused had initially described his name Suraj, but his identity was revealed by his hand tattoo.
Senior Inspector Vinayak Gaikwad said that Singh escaped after allegedly attacked and killed a 23 -year -old woman in Bhiwandi with a sharp weapon in Bhiwandi on October 28, 2024.
According to the police, the woman and the accused were familiar as both were residents of the same village in Uttar Pradesh. According to police, the woman had turned down her love proposal, which she was angry.
After the crime, the official said, the accused changed his hideout several times and kept his mobile phone switched off. The official said that he kept hiding at different places in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The police recently received information that Singh is in Dewas Naka area of Indore and was caught with the help of Indore Crime Branch.