Fourteen years after he allegedly murdered his live-in partner in West Delhi’s Dwarka, an absconding accused was nabbed by a special cell team from an Uttar Pradesh village.
Jaspal is accused of killing his brother’s wife Monu, who was in a live-in relationship with him after her husband’s death. Jaspal’s drinking habits led to frequent quarrels between the couple. He fatally assaulted her one evening in August 2001 after she objected to his drinking.
“He took Monu’s daughter and fled the house. He first went to Haldwani in Uttarakhand, where he worked at a farm. Thereafter, he visited his village and left the girl there before escaping to Punjab, where he worked as a watchman at a mango orchard for five years,” said a senior police officer.
Upon meeting with an accident, he visited Etah town in U.P., where he did odd jobs for the next six years. He returned to his village for the last couple of years and was working as a labourer. The police claim they made several attempts to apprehend him from the village, but he always managed to hide.
His luck ran out on Tuesday as a police team nabbed him. He has admitted to the murder and the local police have been informed, said the police on Thursday.
Jaspal is accused of killing his brother’s widow, who
was in a live-in relationship with him. He allegedly killed her in an inebriated state in August 2001
