New Delhi, A 50-year-old man, on the run for 25 years after allegedly murdering a co-worker in north Delhi’s Roop Nagar in 2000, was arrested from Bihar, an official mentioned on Tuesday.
The accused, Satish Yadav declared a proclaimed offender in October 2000 was traced to his native village in Darbhanga district after a sequence of focused raids throughout a number of states, he mentioned.
A police group was not too long ago reviewing unsolved circumstances when the inquest into the Roop Nagar homicide was discovered to be pending.
In accordance with police, the homicide got here to gentle on February 6, 2000, when a PCR name led police to a home in Malkaganj, the place the sufferer, Sajan Singh, was discovered useless on a mattress with extreme neck accidents inflicted with an axe mendacity close by.
“Statements of Ajay, a 19-year-old co-worker residing with the 2 males, indicated that Sajan and Satish had quarrelled a day earlier over meals bills. Sajan had allegedly slapped Satish, who threatened revenge. The following morning, Sajan was discovered useless and Satish had disappeared,” the officer mentioned.
Regardless of in depth searches, Satish managed to evade the police for many years, shifting between Kolkata, Assam and varied areas in Bihar.
After the case file resurfaced, there have been renewed efforts to hint the accused.
Primarily based on particular inputs about Satish’s attainable presence in his native village in Bihar, a raiding group reached Darbhanga on December 7 to nab the suspect.
“A person helped Satish to flee, however the group overpowered him, and he was apprehended,” the officer mentioned.
Throughout interrogation, Satish confessed that he attacked Sajan with an axe in a match of rage following the quarrel. He claimed he fled Delhi the identical day and spent the subsequent 25 years transferring from one state to a different.
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