Ahmedabad: Seventeen years ago, Gomes d’Souza was allegedly looted 41 kg of silver from the house of an employee of jewelry in Navrangpura.
He escaped to Goa where he started catching fish and running a business.
But, as fate would have it, his crimes caught up with him when the 42-year-old player decided to visit his sister in Ahmedabad and got stuck here because of the increase in cases Covid.
City Crime Branch track him down and arrested on Tuesday for alleged plunder he did in 2005.
The police said, “D’Souza, who is a resident of Amraiwadi in 2005, has been pillaged bag and silver ornaments.
He fled to Panjim and settled there .
While in Ahmedabad, he was away from his family.
However, in 2019, he established contacts with sister and brother through social media platforms.
They live in Chandlodia and D’Souza occasionally come to the city to meet his sister.
However, he did not would never stay for more than two days.
“on December 9, 2021, he came to the city to meet his sister who was pregnant.
“When the case Covid began to rise, D’Souza decided to extend their stay.
He avoids it out and stayed in his house for more than a month, waiting for the waves to subside.
Meanwhile, crime branch officials received information about his whereabouts,” police said.
They raided the house on Tuesday night and arrested him.
Crime branch will surrender her parental rights to the Navrangpura police have registered a case of plunder in 2005.