Rape accused fugitive caught at railway station

SHARMA WAS trying to leave Hyderabad by the Telangana Express when he was caught. Police said Sharma walked till the railway station from Rajendranagar after escaping

Hours after he escaped from police custody, cops caught robbery-rape accused Arun Sharma at the Nampally railway station on Wednesday.

“He was trying to leave Hyderabad by the Telangana Express when we caught him,” Shamshabad DCP Sunpreet Singh said. Police said Sharma walked till the railway station from Rajendranagar after escaping from the police. “He slept on the banks of the Musi at night and then walked to Nampally railway station,” said inspector P. Ramchander Rao.

The 21-year-old Sharma gave police the slip at the Ranga Reddy court and was trying to escape to his hometown in UP. Sharma and his friend Babloo Paul were produced before the eighth metropolitan magistrate court in Ranga Reddy on Tuesday. While taking them back to Cherlapally central prison, they attacked policemen and escaped. Police had set up special teams to nab Sharma after he escaped.

The police now booked a case against him for assaulting a public servant and for escaping from custody, a police official from Shamshabad said.

Earlier, the duo, both natives of Kanpur, had fled from their homes after committing a petty theft. They had come to Hyderabad in search of work. On May 13 night the duo went to a residential complex in Kokapet, entered a house and stole a laptop and three cellphones. While escaping from the house, a girl of the house woke up and saw the duo. When she tried to raise an alarm one of them gagged her mouth with his hands, slapped her and threatened her at knife point.

Then they forcibly took her out of the house to a isolated place and allegedly raped her. The minor girl escaped from their clutches, went to the security post and informed the matter.

The Cyberabad police arrested the duo and sent them to judicial custody.