Mangaluru: Man absconding for 30 years arrested

MANGALURU: The ‘My Beat, My Pride’ initiative of Mangaluru city police has helped the authorities nab a person who has been evading the law for the past three-decades, here on Thursday.
The arrested person has been identified as Shekabba, 50, a resident of Kinya village under Ullal police station limits.
According to P S Harsha, city police commissioner, Shekabba was booked in the Ullal police station under Indian Penal Code sections 341, 324 and 34 in 1989. He had assaulted Fakir Beary along with another person, Mohammed. However, he never attended any court proceeding despite several warrants and was absconding since then. The final warrant was issued against him in 2004 matter was converted in to long pending case.
The police, who started investigating the case, learnt that Shekabba, who believed that case against him might have been quashed and police were not looking out for him, after working in several places, had finally settled in Kinya. The area beat police, who collected information with the help from locals under the My Beat My Pride initiative, led to his arrest. He was produced before the court, which sent him to judicial custody.
Two pimps arrested, women rescued
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