Tattoo Helps Mumbai Cops Track Down Man In 2008 Theft Case

Mumbai: Mumbai police today arrested a
63-year-old man who
was absconding for
the past 15 years in
a housebreaking and
theft case after working on the input that
the accused has a tattoo on his hand, an official said.
Armugam Pallaswami Devendra Mudaliar, then a resident of
Antop Hill in central
Mumbai, was arrested
from the Fort area in
South Mumbai, the
official said. He was
working for a travel
agency using a fake
identity.
Mudaliar, who faces
more than five cases in
Mumbai and Gujarat,
was wanted in a theft
and housebreaking
case registered in 2008
at Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Marg police station, he
said.
As he was untraceable,
a local court declared
him as absconding, he
said.
The RAK Marg police
recently started the investigation afresh and
began looking for him
at Kalyan, Bhandup
and Mahim, he said.
Initially, police got the
information that Mudaliar had fled to Tamil Nadu and there were
even speculations that
he was no more, he
said.
A team working on the
case learnt from police
records that Mudaliar has a tattoo on his
hand. The team also
found his signature, he
said.
With the help of these
details, police tracked
Mudaliar to the city's
Fort area on Thursday,
he said. After verification of the tattoo and
his signature, police
arrested him in the
15-year-old case, he
said.