Girlfriend 'returns' robber to cops after he fled to her

Updated On: 18 May, 2012 06:46 AM IST | | Saurabh Vaktania

After MiD DAY reported that the man had escaped from a police van on April 30 to woo his estranged sweetheart, it emerges that in spite of all his insistences that she run away with him to Uttar Pradesh, she told cops of his whereabouts, leading to his arrest

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Girlfriend 'returns' robber to cops after he fled to her

A daring escape made by a robber a fortnight ago to save his relationship with his girlfriend ended on a note of twisted irony, when the woman tipped off cops regarding his whereabouts, leading to his arrest on Wednesday. On April 30, the accused Abhay Raj Saroj escaped from a police van that was escorting him from the Andheri court to Arthur Road jail (‘Jilted criminal escapes police custody to win back girlfriend’, May 4, MiD DAY).u00a0The van had 53 other accused and four constables. Abhay fled in order to patch things up with his girlfriend, who he feared had left him.u00a0He spent the next 16 days in hiding, roaming the city in search of an appropriate hideout.

MiD DAY’s report on May 4u00a0