1993 Mumbai riots accused arrested after being on the run for three decades

Mumbai: A 65-year-old man allegedly involved in the 1993 Mumbai riots has been arrested here 31 years after he went absconding, police said on Tuesday.

Sayyad Nadir Shah Abbas Khan was nabbed in Sewri area by a team of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg police station on Monday, an official said.

He was named as an accused in a case of attempt to murder and unlawful assembly during the riots in the city that followed the demolition of the Babri masjid in December 1992.

Khan was arrested by police but never attended the court after obtaining bail, the official said.

The court then declared Khan as a wanted accused and issued a non-bailable warrant against him, the official said.

Police visited his residence in Sewri in central Mumbai many times but he remained untraceable.

The sleuths finally got a lead about his whereabouts by examining the mobile phone records of his relatives. On June 29, officials of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg police station got information that Khan was going to visit his residence, following which a trap was laid and he was arrested.

Khan has been re-arrested in the 1993 case and further probe was on, the official said.