Thief involved in more than 100 cases across the country and fled from custody of Gujarat police nabbed by police in Kalyan

Kalyan: A 37-year-old thief involved in over 100 cases and recently had fled from custody of Gujarat police during probe from Thane has been caught by Kolsewadi police in Kalyan.

The accused has been identified as Ramvilas Gupta.The police after nabbing him handed him over to Gujarat police for further enquiry.

Ramvilas has multiple cases registered against him across six states Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telangana, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh.

Police sources said Gujarat police who has taken custody of Ramvilas on this month on April 10 had brought Ramvilas at Thane city for some investigation when he managed to flee from custody of police. Ramvilas who hails from Uttar Pradesh is stays in Kalyan. He is famous thief and has more than 100 cases including 14 offences in Maharashtra's different police stations.

Ashok Kadam, senior police inspector of Kolsewadi police station said, "Since accused hails from Kalyan our team were keeping watch if he comes here and when our API Dinkar Pagare come to know that accused have come into Kalyan and having dinner at Dhaba we immediately sent a team who nabbed accused".

The police later on Thursday was handed to Gujarat police from whose custody accused had fled for further investigation.

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