Fugitive NRI woman, son found in Chennai after two-year hunt.

CBI sleuths on Saturday traced an NRI woman who was on the run after fleeing from the US to India with her minor son on June 28, 2007.

Vijayashree Voora and her seven-year-old son, Aditya, were detained in Chennai while checking out from a hotel in Nungambakkam. They were taken to Delhi, where they were produced before Justice Tarun Chatterjee of the Supreme Court, who directed the CBI officials to produce them before the court on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court had asked the CBI to trace the duo after Aditya’s father, V Ravi Chandran, complained that Vijayashree had disappeared with their son three months before a New York family court dissolved their marriage on September 8, 2005. The court gave Ravi Chandran the custody of the child, but the mother and son remained untraceable despite efforts by the police of several Indian states. Later, the New York family court issued non-bailable warrants against Vijayshree.

Ravi Chandran moved the Supreme Court in India in September 2007 seeking a writ of habeas corpus, saying his son was being illegally detained by Vijayashree. On August 29, the Supreme Court asked the CBI to trace Vijayashree and Aditya.

City police sources said a CBI team from Delhi had arrived here a few days ago. “The CBI team had some definite clues. They watched Voora’s movements for a while and took her into custody while she was vacating her room in a hotel to move into another at Nungambakkam,” a police official told TOI. Vijayasheree had been dodging the police, moving constantly from one place to another, changing her contact numbers and destroying her credit cards and other identity documents. “She never stayed in a hotel for more than three days and never allowed any room boy or hotel authorities to enter the room. She never lost sight of Aditya. She preferred three-star hotels instead of five-star ones, checking herself in as a tourist,” the official said.

CBI officials in disguise were waiting at the reception of the hotel when Voora was checking out. The mother and son were detained and taken to Delhi by air.

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