Palghar, May 13 (PTI) A man on the run for the last five years in connection with a murder case in Tamil Nadu was nabbed from Vasai in Palghar district in Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.

Raghu Dudai Mandal is accused of killing his co-worker in a factory in Chennai when the latter was asleep in his room over a petty issue in September 2018.

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He was traced in the limits of Valiv in Vasai and nabbed by the crime detection unit of the local police on Thursday, a senior police officer said.

A case of murder was registered against Mandal, who hails from Bihar, by Kelambakkam police in Chennai.

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Earlier, Tamil Nadu Police had tracked down Mandal to his native village in Bihar but he managed to give them a slip.

He was tracked down to Vasai after Tamil Nadu Police received a tip-off and informed their counterparts in Maharashtra, the police officer said.

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