The deceased, Parminder Kumar, was a vendor of ready-made garments at a shop in that locality. Singh and his associates had stabbed him with knives and then fled from the spot.
The South Delhi District Police have arrested a 61-year-old man who was on the run for 26 years in a murder case from Vishnu Garden on Sunday.
According to police, the accused, Onkar Singh, had jumped parole in a murder case of 1980 and was declared proclaimed offender in 1991. Singh, along with two associates were locked at central Delhi's Paharganj, after they were found guilty for carrying out a murder of a 25-year-old man over monetary dispute in 1980.
The deceased, Parminder Kumar, was a vendor of ready-made garments at a shop in that locality. Singh and his associates had stabbed him with knives and then fled from the spot.
During the course of investigation, Singh was arrested along with his associates and put to trial. Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment and remained in judicial custody till 1989. In the same year, he applied for parole to get married. After getting married, he surrendered to judicial custody. Later, he again applied for parole in 1991 and after being granted parole, he fled .
Singh was declared a Proclaimed Offender on November 21, 1991.
Police said that after jumping parole, Singh kept on shifting from one city to another and for short periods, lived in cities such as Ludhiana, Bikaner, Haridwar and Ghaziabad before returning to Delhi. Here he lived in various places before settling down in Vishnu Garden at Mangal Bazar Road.
Singh got employment with a private security agency in Tilak Nagar and started working as a private security guard.
"He was currently deployed at Ganga Ram Vatika, Vishnu Garden. Being assured that no one from police was following him now, he had started living with his wife, one son and one daughter," said Ishwar Singh, Deputy commissioner of police (south) .
Police said that Singh was arrested during an operation of the Vigilance Branch, which has been engaged in developing profiles of long running Proclaimed Offenders who have been almost forgotten due to their exceptionally long periods of absconding from law.
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