Man on run for 25 years held for wife’s murder

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A 60-year-old man absconding for last 25 years was nabbed by the Delhi Police on Saturday in national Capital. The man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her wife in Nagpur, Maharashtra had jumped parole in 1993.

The accused is identified as Farid Khan a resident of Nehru Vihar, Karawal Nagar. "We have received specific inputs that parole jumper Farid, would be coming to VP Market, near Gagan Cinema in Delhi on Friday following a team laid a trap and apprehended the convict from the spot," said Dr G Ram Gopal Naik, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), crime branch.

"During sustained interrogation, the accused Farid, disclosed that his first wife did not accepted his second wife. The accused was not happy with the behavior of his first wife in respect of his second wife. The accused hatched the conspiracy to murder his wife with the help of his associates. The accused murdered his first wife to keep happy himself and his second wife," said the DCP.

"The accused was convicted of life imprisonment in the year 1991 for murdering his wife. The accused got parole from the court in year 1993 and after getting parole from the court he did not surrendered before the jail authorities and fled to Delhi.

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