26-year-wanted murder suspect apprehended in UP

Surat: After being pursued for 26 years in connection with a murder case filed in Jetpur town of Rajkot, an Uttar Pradesh native was finally apprehended by the law. He was originally from the Chitrakoot area of Uttar Pradesh.

Mithilesh, also known as Uttam Patel, 50, was apprehended by the Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) on suspicion of murdering a watchman at the Jetpur tile plant where he was employed in 1999.

In addition, he had a Rs. 10,000 cash incentive with him.
To find Patel, who was hiding in the district’s notorious Dacoit Dadua’s neighborhood, the police had to assume false identities.
The information indicated that Patel and his three associates had planned an industrial heist. But when the watchman saw them during the heist, he and his pals were confronted.
To murder the watchman, they bound him with ropes and repeatedly struck his face with a large stone.
He ran away to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh after the murder. He quickly fled to Delhi, where he spent several years, fearing that the authorities would find him there. In order to survive and hide, he also traveled to various cities around the nation.
Inspector RS Suvera of the PCB police told TOI that he assumed the police would have forgotten about the matter after 26 years had passed. He returned to his hometown of Chitrakoot as a result. We were tipped off that Patel resided in the area of Rukma Khurd. We were able to establish his hiding spot using both technological information and human sources.
“A head constable and a group of three assistant sub-inspectors were sent there. We had to exercise extreme caution since there are dacoits in the region, and they have a hazardous tendency to murder people.
We executed our assignment with accuracy and turned Patel over to the rural police of Rajkot,” Suvera stated.
The Surat PCB squad has been awarded a sum of Rs 10,000 by the Rajkot rural superintendent of police.