Fugitive Aman Pandey, who escaped from Deoria jail in 2022, nabbed in Surat: Uttar Pradesh STF tracks him down; used false identity to evade arrest | Lucknow News
LUCKNOW: The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested Aman Pandey, a fugitive who escaped from Deoria district jail in December 2022, from Surat, Gujarat. The arrest was made on August 13 at Shiv Shakti Society, Bhathena, under Udhna police station limits in Surat.According to SSP, STF, Ghule Shushil Chandrabhan, Pandey, son of Upendra Pandey and a resident of Baraipur village under Rampur police station, Deoria, was lodged in Deoria jail since December 16, 2022, in connection with rape, kidnapping, and Sections 3/4 of the POCSO Act at Gauri Bazaar police station. On December 29, 2022, he escaped from jail.SSP Ghule said that investigations revealed that on the day of his escape, a man named Upendra visited the jail to meet another inmate. “When ward staff announced that ‘Upendra’ had arrived, Aman Pandey falsely claimed that the visitor was his father. Jail personnel escorted him to the visitors’ area, where he remained seated until meeting hours concluded. As family members of other inmates were leaving, Pandey mingled with the crowd and walked out unnoticed, successfully breaching the jail’s security,” said the SSP STF.A case was registered the same day at Kotwali police station, Deoria, under Sections 223 and 224 of the IPC against him. Since then, Pandey was absconding, moving between Varanasi, Delhi, and Amritsar before settling in Surat under a false identity.The SSP said that the STF’s Varanasi field unit was collecting intelligence on fugitives and reward-listed criminals. A team developed credible information that Pandey was hiding in Surat. Acting swiftly, the team conducted a raid and apprehended him from his rented accommodation in the densely populated Shiv Shakti Society locality.Pandey is being produced before a Surat court for transit remand before being brought back to Uttar Pradesh. Further legal action is underway.
