Etawah (UP), police on Tuesday arrested one of the three accused who were trying to evade custody while being taken from Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh to Maharashtra's Palghar on transit remand in a fraud case, officials said. Had jumped from the train.

Government Railway Police (GRP), Etawah police station in-charge Shailesh Kumar Nigam said that Mohammad Anees was caught near Ikdil railway station at 6.30 am.

The officer said the Pratapgarh resident was produced before a local court in Etawah and after the court approves his remand, the GRP will hand him over to Maharashtra Police. The corporation said that the search is on for the other two accused, Rehan Farooqui and Aqeel Ahmed.

Daring to escape, the trio pushed away the police personnel accompanying them and jumped off the Pratapgarh-Bandra-Mumbai Express between Etawah and Ikdil railway stations, despite being handcuffed, officials said on Monday morning. .

He said that after producing him in a court in Pratapgarh district, Maharashtra Police officers Milind Tapde and Harshal Rouse were taking him back to Palghar.

The corporation said on Monday that Anees, Farooqui and Ahmed have been named in several criminal cases including fraud and tampering of documents.

He had said that they escaped around 5.20 am on Monday.