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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four long absconding accused persons, namely, Rajkumar Churewal, Madhav Churewal, Dipak Churewal and Rajesh Churewal, all belonging to the same family, from Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Maharashtra, nearly 15 years after they went into abscondence. 

Rajkumar Churewal and Madhav Churewal were declared absconders in connection with RC 07/E/2004 and RC 06/E/2007 of CBI, EOB, Kolkata (both relating to bank fraud cases), while the other two accused were declared absconders in RC 06/E/2007 alone, in the year 2010. Another member of the same family, Surendra Kumar Churewal, who had also been declared an absconder by the competent court in RC 06/E/2007, is now reportedly deceased. During their period of abscondence, the accused deliberately sought to conceal their true identities by obtaining forged government identification documents under fictitious names. 

In view of their prolonged abscondence, a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh each was declared for furnishing information about their whereabouts by CBI. Recently, new leads regarding their current aliases and residential addresses were successfully traced. Acting on the new leads, CBI teams of EOB Kolkata, launched coordinated operations yesterday i.e., 14.09.2025, resulting in the arrest of Rajkumar Churewal, Madhav Churewal and Dipak Churewal from two separate locations in Nagpur, and Rajesh Churewal from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. 

The accused shall be produced before the competent court at Kolkata. In addition, CBI is in the process of registering a fresh case against them with the state police for cheating by impersonation, forgery for the purpose of cheating, and other relevant offences. It has also been revealed that during their period of abscondence, the accused obtained another bank loan from the Bank of India under their assumed identities, which they later defaulted on.