Mangaluru, July 11 -- Bringing to an end a five-year manhunt, the Puttur Town Police have arrested a robbery accused from Kerala's Thrissur district who had been absconding since 2021 despite repeated court summons and as many as 41 non-bailable arrest warrants. The accused was produced before the jurisdictional court after his arrest.

The arrested accused has been identified as Nelson CV (38), a native of Thrissur district in Kerala. He is one of the accused in a sensational armed robbery reported in the Puttur Town Police Station limits in December 2017.

According to police, the robbery took place on December 22, 2017, when three unidentified men allegedly barged into a house in Puttur, threatened the occupants at gunpoint and with kn...