On run for 25 years, murder convict held in southwest Delhi

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The Delhi Police has arrested a antheral convicted of murdering his wife, who had been connected the tally for 25 years aft jumping parole, an authoritative said.

The accused, Yoginder Singh (58), was convicted successful 1997 and sentenced to beingness imprisonment for strangling his woman to decease successful 1992. He was released connected parole for 4 weeks successful June 2000, but failed to surrender and remained connected the run.

Police said that the accused was apprehended by a squad from Ludhiana successful Punjab. Singh had been surviving nether an assumed identity, having changed his name, father's sanction and residential code and had procured caller individuality documents to evade arrest.

"Yoginder had moved crossed respective States — Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Karnataka — earlier settling successful Ludhiana successful 2012, wherever helium worked arsenic a carpenter and blended into the section colonisation by learning Punjabi," said the constabulary officer.

According to police, the lawsuit dates backmost to March 15, 1992, erstwhile accusation was received astir the execution of a pistillate astatine the Pillangi colony successful southwest Delhi.

A tribunal convicted Yoginder successful March 1997 and awarded beingness imprisonment. His entreaty was aboriginal dismissed by the Delhi High Court successful 2010, and helium was declared a proclaimed offender.

Published - January 07, 2026 05:47 p.m. IST

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