The 54-year-old lawyer was finally arrested after a long wait of 15 years who was wanted in two different fraud cases. The accused was evading arrest for past 15 years and was caught on Monday, hiding in a washing machine in plush Juhu home.

According to a report, the accused 54-year-old Manoj Tiwari was arrested in involvement in Rs 1 lakh cheating case. He apparently has been accused of cheating three people of Rs 1 lakh by promising them admission in a B.Ed course in a college in Beed. For three hours, his wife kept Azad Maidan and Juhu police teams waiting outside the house, who had come looking for him. Eventually, they convinced her to let them inside and found him hiding under a pile of clothes inside the washing machine.

However, even after they were let in, they looked for him in his three-bedroom apartment but could not find him. They were about to give up their search when they happened to pull out clothes from the washing machine, only to find Manoj Tiwari hiding beneath the clothes inside the washing machine.

Vasant Wakhare, senior police inspector, Azad Maidan police station said after the accused was declared an absconder by the court for a 2002 cheating case, they began tracing him. Once the police commissioner ordered that absconding accused of previous cases be traced, the cops went looking for him at his house in Juhu.