A person convicted and sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his minor daughter was arrested in Rajasthan after remaining absconding for 27 years, Faridabad police officers stated on Saturday.
Investigators stated the convict, now aged 64, was arrested on Thursday in Talheti village in Udaipur district, the place he had been residing beneath a modified identification for a number of years. Police stated he had earlier moved throughout totally different districts in Haryana, Punjab and Gujarat earlier than shifting to Rajasthan about 4 years in the past.
In response to police, the sufferer was 14 years previous when she registered an FIR towards her father at Metropolis Ballabgarh police station on October 2, 1996. Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, stated, “A courtroom of further periods decide PC Goyal sentenced the person to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a high-quality of ₹5,000 on April 21, 1998. Nevertheless, he filed an attraction difficult his sentence earlier than the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket.”
Yadav stated the excessive courtroom granted him bail inside a couple of months, after which he turned traceless.
Police stated the convict by no means enrolled for Aadhaar, didn’t possess or use a cell phone, and left no digital footprint to keep away from being tracked. Investigators stated the absence of pictures additional hampered efforts to hint him.
The courtroom of the chief judicial Justice of the Peace in Faridabad had been issuing rearrest warrants for a number of years, however repeated raids at his native place in Sasaram in Bihar and different suspected places yielded no outcomes. A recent rearrest warrant was issued on December 5, 2025, following which the matter was escalated to senior police officers.
The duty was assigned to go constable Manoj Mudgil, posted at Sikri police put up, Faridabad, who has earlier tracked greater than 71 long-absconding criminals.
Investigators stated Mudgil’s group approached the convict’s son, who lives in Rajiv Colony, Faridabad, on December 26. Police advised him to provide a dying certificates of his father or face continued police motion. Officers stated he left for Udaipur on December 31, adopted discreetly by the police group.
A police official stated the son met an aged suspect in Talheti and returned to Faridabad, after which surveillance within the village was intensified. “On Thursday, the suspect stepped out to method a authorities workplace for a dying certificates and was arrested. He was delivered to Faridabad and despatched to judicial custody,” the official stated.
Police additionally stated the sufferer died 23 years in the past whereas delivering a baby after her marriage.
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