On the run for 16 years after highway robbery-murder, 70-year-old woman arrested from home in Ahmedabad
But it was a visit to her home in Ahmedabad's Aslali to meet her daughter that proved to be Jamna's undoing. The woman, now 70, was nabbed by Ahmedabad Rural Police on Tuesday.
Jamna was among nine persons who were accused in the case that dates back to March 18, 2009.
According to police, a woman named Daksha and her husband Rajesh had left Ghatlodia in Ahmedabad to go back home after the final rites of an acquaintance when, around 9.45 pm, between Kamod and Indiranagar, the 'gang' struck. They waylaid the couple and repeatedly hit them with a laundry bat, grievously injuring them in the process. The gang then proceeded to loot the cash, jewellery and phones of the victims and fled, police said.
The couple was spotted by passersby who admitted them to a nearby hospital where Rajesh succumbed to his injuries during treatment.
Jamna and eight others were booked under Indian Penal Code's (IPC) sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 397 (dacoity with deadly weapon), and 400 (punishment for gang of dacoits) in the FIR filed at Aslali police station based on a complaint from Daksha, the survivor.
Sub inspector R B Rathod of the Local Crime Branch (LCB), who nabbed Jamna, told The Indian Express, 'There were a total of nine accused in the case. Of them, eight had been arrested. Subsequently, seven were found guilty by the trial court and sentenced to either seven years or life imprisonment based on whether they were found guilty for dacoity or murder. One accused was acquitted. Meanwhile, Jamna was never arrested in the case and had been absconding for the last 16 years.'
SI Rathod said that in the period Jamna was on the run, her husband Arjan had died during Covid period while two of her sons had been released from prison after their incarceration. However, the other two, including the one who was sentenced to life imprisonment, are still behind bars.
Since Jamna was never caught, the police said that her trial was never conducted.
Police said it took more than one-and-a-half decades to track Jamna since she used to be constantly on the run. During this time, she lived in Rajkot, Surat and several other towns, they added. They managed to finally track her down when she went home to Aslali to meet her daughter, said police.
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