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PUNE: The Chennai police, in the city with a theft suspect to recover stolen booty, were caught napping when the bandit ran away from a lodge in Hadapsar in the wee hours of Friday.

The Chennai police had brought Kumar alias Rafiq Shaikh (40) to Pune for investigation and recovering gold ornaments which he sold to a local jeweller. Police inspector of Chennai's Vadpallani police station Govindraj Palani has filed a complaint with the Hadapsar police saying Kumar escaped from a lodge in Hadapsar on early Friday morning. He was recently arrested in a burglary case at Chennai and was under police custody.

Palani had brought Shaikh to Pune for recovering gold ornaments he had sold to a Centre street jeweller. The team landed at the lodge and went in search of the jeweller. All of the stolen gold (12 tolas) was recovered by the team and they returned to the lodge. The team was to leave for Chennai on Saturday. However, the officials noticed that Shaikh went missing from the lodge. He ran away handcuffed.

The Hadapsar police said the Chennai police had not informed them about Kumar's detention in Pune, as required under Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The rule requires the police bringing a suspect from another jurisdiction to make a station diary entry at the local police station. The suspect is then kept at the local police station lock-up. The visiting officers are also expected to submit their service revovler with the local police and head to the place they are planning to stay. But the Chennai police did none of the above.
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