A man convicted in a 1997 robbery and gang rape case was apprehended in Uttar Pradesh after evading authorities for nearly ten years due to a parole violation, as per the Gujarat Police. The arrest took place during “Operation Karavas-2,” a statewide initiative aimed at locating and capturing absconding parole and furlough violators.
The operation, conducted from June 8 to June 21 under the supervision of Director General of Police G.S. Malik, involved the Ahmedabad Rural Local Crime Branch (LCB) and Parole Furlough Squad. Senior officers, including Inspector General of Police Raghvendra Vats and Superintendent of Police Om Prakash Jat, directed teams to track down and detain absconding convicts and parole jumpers.
The arrested individual, identified as Sarfaddin Suleman Fakir from Islamnagar in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district, had been serving a sentence related to a robbery and gang rape case at Aslali Police Station in Ahmedabad Rural. After fleeing parole, he had been on the run for a decade before being located in Islamnagar through targeted operations based on human intelligence and technical surveillance.
Acting on specific information, a team led by Police Sub-Inspector P.G. Baraiya successfully located and apprehended Fakir in Uttar Pradesh. The case against him dated back to February 11, 1997, when he and his associates allegedly committed a robbery and gang rape near Bareja village, leading to his conviction by the court.
Following his arrest, Fakir was brought back to Gujarat and transferred to Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad to serve the remainder of his sentence.
