Chennai: Even as another special team from Chennai was on its way to Mumbai to secure murder suspect S. Dhashwanth, he was nabbed from a motel in Andheri on Friday by the city police with help from Mumbai police. Dhashwanth, a suspect in the murder of his mother, was secured by the city police near Chembur in Mumbai on Wednesday, five days after his mother was found bludgeoned to death at their residence in Kundrathur.
However, Dhashwanth, with his hands cuffed, managed to give police a slip on Thursday from a hotel in Mumbai a few hours before he was to be taken to the airport to be bought to the city. Chennai police however managed to salvage some pride by managing to trace him again. A CCTV footage of him escaping from the hotel was circulated to police stations in Mumbai and he was traced within 24 hours at a motel in Andheri, police sources said.
Meanwhile, bringing him to the city would be delayed further, city police officers said. “He has been handed over to the Mumbai police as he escaped from police custody there. After producing before a magistrate there, we would seek a transit warrant again,” according to a senior police officer.
Last Saturday, Dhashwanth’s mother, Sarala was bludgeoned to death in her house in Kundrathur. Jewellery worth 200 grams and her son, who was out on bail went missing from the house pointing the needle of suspicion towards Dashwanth.
Dhashwanth’s inclination to bet on race horses, a hobby he acquired from his father, Sekar is said to have helped police in narrowing down the places where he would have left to after absconding. After scanning through the racecourses within the state, a team was sent to Chembur in Maharashtra and Dhashwant was found there on Wednesday.
