Luck finally ran out for two convicted murderers, who jumped parole to begin life anew with assumed identities in the Mumbai metropolitan region.
Two convicts, who had escaped from Nagpur and Yerwada prisons years ago, finally caught
MUMBAI: Luck finally ran out for two convicted murderers, who jumped parole to begin life anew with assumed identities in the Mumbai metropolitan region.
Rakesh Gadpaheli, 32, was sentenced to life in prison for killing a youth over a land dispute in Gondia district in 2003. After a year in Nagpur jail, he was let out on parole for a month for good conduct. But Gadpaheli had had enough of the jail and decided not to return to life behind bars.
Gadpaheli came to Mumbai, set up a Chinese food stall in Chembur Camp, and starting to lead a rather nondescript life.
Prison officers released Gadpaheli’s sketches across India, but there was no information on his whereabouts. Last Saturday, an officer from the RCF police station recognised him at the stall. The officer was tipped off by an informer, who described Gadpaheli’s physique and said he was working at the stall.
“Gadpaheli had been working at the joint for the last three years,” said sub-inspector Sanjay Bhapkar of the RCF police station. “His face matched the sketch closely and this aroused our suspicion. After sustained interrogation, he confessed that he had jumped parole.”
In another, older case, Sadashiv Tare, 55, was sentenced to life in prison after killing rival Chintaman Tare in Anjur locality of Bhiwandi in 1989. He was lodged in Yeravada prison and granted parole for 15 days in 1995. That was the last the jailers saw of Tare.
But on Monday night, officers from the Narpoli police station in Bhiwandi got a tipoff of Tare’s presence and raided his residence. Sure enough, they found their man.
Preliminary questioning by the police revealed that Tare had been leading a nomadic life and had come home only recently to spend some time with his family. “As soon as we got to know about his return, we picked him up,” said Ashok Kadlag, police sub-inspector, Narpoli.
Tare has been bundled off to Yeravada to serve out his sentence.
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