NAGPUR: A team of Nagpur Crime Branch succeeded in arresting dreaded criminal Vivek Palatkar, who is accused in the sensational murders of his five family members that rocked the city last week.
Sources say, the Crime Branch team arrested the accused on Thursday from a slum in Ludhiana district in Punjab. The team had got clues about his whereabouts and was camping in Punjab since last three days. The cops, along with the accused, would be returning to Nagpur by Friday.
Vivek Palakar, in a cold-blooded crime, murdered his elder sister, her husband, daughter and mother-in-law along with his own son, last week in an area coming under the Nandanvan police station. Palatkar was at large after the crime.
More details about the Crime Branch operation and the arrest are awaited.