Evading Arrest for 15 Years, Man Caught Hiding in Washing Machine
Police caught man hiding in a washing machine after 15 years: A 54-year-old man, who had been evading arrest for the past 15 years was caught hiding in a washing machine at his Juhu house on Monday.
The Azad Maidan and Juhu police who had come looking for him found him under a pile of clothes inside the washing machine.
Vasant Wakhare, senior police inspector, said after the accused was declared an absconder by court for a 2002 cheating case, they began tracing him.
Once the police commissioner ordered that absconding accused of previous cases be traced, we went looking for him at his house in Juhu, he added. “The accused is also wanted in a Rs1-crore cheating case in Pune,” said Vakahre.
The accused had cheated three people to the tune of Rs1 lakh in 2002 on the pretext of getting them admissions in BEd course, the police said.
The police teams were about to give up the search, when they happened to pull a cloth from the washing machine where he was hiding.
