On the run for 15 years, man convicted of killing taxi drivers caught in UP
On the run for 15 years after jumping parole, a man convicted of multiple murders was arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch team on Saturday.Police said in 2001, Dhirender Singh Tomar, then a 19-year-old, was leading a gang of criminals who hired taxis in Uttarakhand and NCR, killed the drivers, and then stole the vehicles to sell them across the border in Nepal.
Police said they arrested Tomar, now 45, from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, where he was living with his wife under a false identity.
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Tomar, police said, had been on the run since 2010 after he got out of jail on a month-long parole. He had been in and out of prison since March 2001, when he was arrested for a murder in the Capital’s Ashok Nagar area.
According to the police, a PCR c...