Periyapatna police trace accused ‘absconding’ for 31 years, produce him at court
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Mysuru: A prime accused in house burglary and theft case who had gone elusive for 31 years has been finally traced by Periyapatna police.
The house of Basappa at Kiranahalli village in Periyapatna taluk was burgled in 1983. Three accused- Nagaraju, Somashekar and Chandra all from Ichanahalli of K R Nagar taluk were arrested. However, Nagaraju abstained from court hearings from 1990 and the case had remained unsolved from then.
Meanwhile Mysuru SP R Chetan formed a special team supervised by Additional SP Shivakumar and Hunsur DySP Raviprasad and headed by Periyapatna police inspector P Jagadish which succeeded in tracing Nagaraju and produced him at the court on July 6.
SP announced reward for Periyapatna PI Jagadish, PSI Sadashivathippareddy, staff Gavigowda and Nanjundaswamy for tracing Nagaraju.
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