Jagtar Singh, alias Gora, 35, a resident of Kheri village in Patiala, was arrested on April 11 after a multi-district chase that saw investigators scan nearly 300 CCTV footage clips to track him down.
The manhunt, launched after piecing together his movement across districts and state borders, led to the recovery of stolen vehicles worth around ₹40 lakh.
With no initial leads, the case, registered at the Pinjore police station on a complaint by Ram Karan, was handed over to the detective staff.
The investigators began reconstructing the suspect’s trail frame-by-frame through CCTV footage.
Police said the search stretched from Madawala in Pinjore to Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, and further through Ropar, Ludhiana and Patiala in Punjab, as teams tracked possible escape routes before zeroing in on the accused.