Dhashwant brought to Chennai, cops to hold him for 3 days

Chennai: After 23-year-old Dhashwanth, accused of murdering his mother and assaulting a 7-year-old, was chased down by the police on Friday, he was brought to Chennai on Saturday night. The police said he would be in custody for three days.

Dhashwanth was earlier nabbed by the city police near Chembur in Mumbai on Wednesday, five days after his mother was found dead at their residence in Kundrathur. He, however, escaped from police custody on Thursday. 

The City police confirmed that he escaped handcuffs on from a hotel near the airport after claiming to attend nature's call. After producing him at a court in Mumbai for a transit warrant, the police team was about to take him to the airport when he escaped from custody.

The Chennai police circulated the CCTV footage of him escaping from the hotel in all the police stations, after which he was nabbed again by a three-member team at a betting shop in Mumbai. Allegedly, it was his weakness for horses that got him nabbed and sources said Dhashwanth's father had helped the police in narrowing down the places where he would have left to after absconding.

The 24-year-old was arrested for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, Hasini in February this year and was granted bail in September.  Days after the incident, his mother was found bludgeoned to death and he had absconded the scene with her jewellery. Meanwhile, police also found that he approached two persons he acquainted while in prison to help him pledge the jewels before escaping to Mumbai.