The accused in the Betwa apartment robbery case was nabbed by the district police on Saturday. The miscreant identified as Shakru, who attacked an elderly couple along with Rahul and missing for the last five days was arrested on Saturday. Police were successful in nabbing Rahul while he was trying to flee the spot.
After the incident when police failed to find the miscreants, a cash reward of `5,000 was declared to provide the whereabouts of the absconding accused Shakru and Aditya Malik alias Malkhan. Malkhan is the neighbour of the old couple, who had engineered the plan to loot the couple. He is still at large.
On Saturday one of the absconding accused Shakru who was among the two miscreants who attacked a couple residing at fifth floor of the Betwa apartment, was successfully nabbed by TT Nagar police from Polytechnic Square area.
Notably, on November 1 two miscreants entered the couple’s flat at fifth floor in the wee hours and when the victims RK Mehta and his wife Pushpa Mehta protested they were attacked with sharp weapons.
The victims managed to raise an alarm which alerted patrolling police personnel were rescued and the police managed to nab one of the miscreants.
Police during the investigation found that the miscreants were facilitated by the victims ‘ neighbours who informed the miscreants and signaled to enter the premises. later, the accused neighbour was identified as Aditya Malik alias Malkhan who went missing.
Police said that search for the missing accused Aditya was been intensified and the call details of the accused have been searched.