The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) nabbed the prime accused Amit Agarwal in the sensational Puri triple murder case in 2013 from Indore and produced him before a court here on Tuesday. Amit was on the run for the last four years after his wife and two children were found dead in a hotel here.
Sources said Amit, a resident of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, along with his wife Ankita Bansal, four-year-old son Divyanshu and seven-year-old daughter Vani had booked a room in Jamindar Palace here on December 9, 2013.
The next day, his wife and two children were found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hotel. Following preliminary investigations police said that all the three deceased were drugged and later strangulated to death.
However, Amit managed to elude the police dragnet and went underground. later, the case was later handed over to the CBI. However, after thorough investigation the CBI sleuths managed to trace Amit and found that he was working for a contractor in Indore under a false identity.