A 37-year-old criminal, carrying a reward of Rs 5,000 in his head, was arrested by Koh-e-Fiza police station on Sunday during a raid in lalghati area on Sunday night.
Police said that the absconded accused was identified as Jagdish Dumane of Durga Nagar who killed his father Kailash Dumane while his accomplice Sonu Yadav (32) who was debarked from Bhopal by district administration. Two were planning to make gang and commit crimes.
A case under NSA has been registered against Sonu.
Earlier Sonu and Jagga alias Jagdish formed a gang to commit crimes and Jagga was in search of his wife's lover and wanted to kill him but was nabbed and is serving jail.
Meanwhile, sixteen gamblers were nabbed from two different places by Jehangirabad and Govindpura police and recovered Rs 15000 from their possession on Sunday. Jehangirabad police have nabbed seven gamblers near Registrar Office Sunday.
The nabbed gamblers were identified as Raghvendra, Manmohan, Pan Singh, Hukum Singh, Rajesh, Jagdish, Raghuveer Singh and Rs 8000 cash was recovered from their possession.
From Barkheda area Govindpura police have nabbed 9 gamblers who were identified as Krishnamurthy, Rajesh, Mohammad Hussain, Nema Kumar, Kailash, SOmnath, Raju, Ram Singh and Ankush and recovered Rs 7000 from their possession.
Police have registered a case under section 13 of the Gambling Act.
Further investigation is underway.