The officials of city crime branch today arrested Sadhvi Jayshree Giri, an accused in a cheating case who was on a run since last one week, from the outskirts of Udaipur in Rajasthan.
She had escaped from the police custody on June 14 from a mall in the city.
"We have arrested Sadhvi Jayshree Giri from a toll booth near Udaipur city in Rajasthan today. We are now bringing her back," said a senior crime branch official.
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Sadhvi, who once served as the head of Mukteshwar Mahadev Math in Banaskantha district, was arrested by the district police in January this year in a cheating case and later sent to the Sabarmati Central jail here by the court.
On June 4, she was granted 10-days parole under police escort by the Gujarat High Court on health ground.
On June 14, when she was supposed to surrender, she escaped from a mall, where she came with a woman constable.
Later, police arrested the woman constable and five others on the charge of helping Sadhvi escape and launched a hunt to nab her.
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