New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) A 25-year-old man absconding in a firing case in northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar was nabbed after a female police officer lured him into meeting her through social media, police said on Wednesday.

On April 2, a gunshot was fired at a man named Pradeep and his niece was struck with the gun’s butt.

Rahul Matad was part of the group involved in the violence. After the incident, he demaped and was declared a proclaimed offender. While he was in hiding, a female police officer sent him a request over social media through her original profile and started a conversation with him. After being in contact for over a month, she asked him to meet her. This is how he was nabbed. A resident of Wazirpur Industrial Area, Rahul is a dreaded criminal with a notorious background.

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