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NDTV
31-07-2025
- NDTV
Gujarat Woman, 70, Arrested 16 Years After Highway Robbery-Murder
For the last 16 years, Jamna Arjun Chunara has been traversing the length and breadth of Gujarat. Not because she is a traveller, but because she is an accused in a highway robbery that turned into a murder case. After being on the run for 16 years, Jamna Arjun Chunara was arrested on Tuesday from her daughter's home, said the Ahmedabad Rural Police. It was the winter of 2009. On March 18, a couple was returning from an acquaintance's last rites in Ahmedabad's Ghatlodia when, around 9 pm, between Kamod and Indiranagar, a gang stopped them. The gang reportedly attacked the couple with a laundry bat and robbed them of their belongings, including jewellery and mobile phones. The couple, injured, was left to die on the road until passersby spotted them and rushed them to a nearby hospital. The man died of his injuries during treatment. A First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Jamna, and eight others based on a complaint from the survivor. According to media reports, eight were arrested, of which seven were found guilty and sentenced. But Jamna was missing. And then began the chase. Jamna moved from one village to another, one city to another, evading police. Meanwhile, Jamna's husband and son were arrested and convicted by the police in several cases. The two served their sentences and were released from jail after serving their time, but Jamna was nowhere to be found. It is on Tuesday, the police managed to track down Jamna during her visit to Aslali to meet her daughter.
Indian Express
29-07-2025
- Indian Express
On the run for 16 years after highway robbery-murder, 70-year-old woman arrested from home in Ahmedabad
For the last 16 years, Jamna Arjan Chunara had been evading the Gujarat Police. Accused along with several members of her family in a case of highway robbery that turned into that of murder after the death of one of the victims, the woman had been moving from one village to another, one city to another, traversing the length and breadth of the state. In the meantime, her husband and four sons were arrested, convicted, sentenced and, in a couple of cases, even released after serving time. But it was a visit to her home in Ahmedabad's Aslali to meet her daughter that proved to be Jamna's undoing. The woman, now 70, was nabbed by Ahmedabad Rural Police on Tuesday. Jamna was among nine persons who were accused in the case that dates back to March 18, 2009. According to police, a woman named Daksha and her husband Rajesh had left Ghatlodia in Ahmedabad to go back home after the final rites of an acquaintance when, around 9.45 pm, between Kamod and Indiranagar, the 'gang' struck. They waylaid the couple and repeatedly hit them with a laundry bat, grievously injuring them in the process. The gang then proceeded to loot the cash, jewellery and phones of the victims and fled, police said. The couple was spotted by passersby who admitted them to a nearby hospital where Rajesh succumbed to his injuries during treatment. Jamna and eight others were booked under Indian Penal Code's (IPC) sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 397 (dacoity with deadly weapon), and 400 (punishment for gang of dacoits) in the FIR filed at Aslali police station based on a complaint from Daksha, the survivor. Sub inspector R B Rathod of the Local Crime Branch (LCB), who nabbed Jamna, told The Indian Express, 'There were a total of nine accused in the case. Of them, eight had been arrested. Subsequently, seven were found guilty by the trial court and sentenced to either seven years or life imprisonment based on whether they were found guilty for dacoity or murder. One accused was acquitted. Meanwhile, Jamna was never arrested in the case and had been absconding for the last 16 years.' SI Rathod said that in the period Jamna was on the run, her husband Arjan had died during Covid period while two of her sons had been released from prison after their incarceration. However, the other two, including the one who was sentenced to life imprisonment, are still behind bars. Since Jamna was never caught, the police said that her trial was never conducted. Police said it took more than one-and-a-half decades to track Jamna since she used to be constantly on the run. During this time, she lived in Rajkot, Surat and several other towns, they added. They managed to finally track her down when she went home to Aslali to meet her daughter, said police.
