Chennai, July 17 -- In a significant breakthrough, the CBI, after two decades traced arrested an absconding accused at Indore in Madhya Pradesh using Image Search Tools(IST) in a Rs 8 crore Bengaluru SBI bank fraud case.

CBI today said it has successfully traced and arrested Ms Mani M. Sekhar, a long-absconding Proclaimed Offender in the case.

The case was registered at CBI BSFB Bengaluru on August 1, 2006 against accused persons including Ramanujam Muthuramalingam Sekhar @ R.M. Sekhar , MD, M/s Indo Marks Pvt. Ltd. and Ms Mani M. Sekhar, Director, M/s Indo Marks and BTC Home Products Pvt. Ltd., for having entered into a criminal conspiracy during the period 2002 to 2005 and thereby dishonestly and fraudulently cheating State Bank of In...