Wanted in connection with two cases of housebreaking, Prakash Sitaram Raut (55) managed to evade the police for 24 years, until his desire to fulfil his civic duty did him in.

Raut was arrested in the cases and asked to appear before the court for sentencing in 1990, but he never showed up. He had been changing houses constantly since then, and keeping a low profile to evade arrest.