Delhi Police arrest rape-murder convict, who jumped parole, after 14 years from Meerut
The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch on Monday arrested a man convicted of raping a woman and subsequently murdering her and four other family members, including children, in East Delhi’s Bhajanpura area, 14 years after he jumped parole and disappeared, officials said.
The accused, identified as Raj Kumar alias Raju, was nabbed in a special operation from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut where he was staying with his wife and children, they said.
Raj Kumar was among the six accused in connection with the murder of a man, two women, and two children that took place in a house during a robbery on July 6, 1996, in Bhajanpura.
The other four accused are Rajender alias Raju, Sunil, Jai Kishan, Kawaljeet alias Kawal Singh, and Rajrani.
“After interrogating the accused persons, it was revealed that they entered the house to commit robbery, suspecting that a large amount of cash was kept inside. When the occupants resisted, the accused killed all of them, raped one of the women in the house, looted valuables, and fled from the crime scene,” Aditya Gautam, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, said.
The police said in their statement that during the trial, Karkardooma court convicted four of the accused and sentenced them to 20 years of imprisonment on December 20, 2002. Two of the accused, Sunil and Jai Kishan, died during their sentence and Raj kumar jumped the parole of 40 days, which was granted to him as his mother was ill.
A team comprising sub-inspectors Anuj Kumar and Amit Grewal, under the supervision of Inspector Rakesh Kumar (Crime), was formed to collect details about Raj Kumar, the police said.
Story continues below this ad
“The police team posed as an Amazon delivery boy in Hapur. Eventually, a secret tip-off confirmed that Raj Kumar was indeed residing in Multan Nagar, Meerut. Acting on this intelligence, the raiding party successfully apprehended him from Meerut,” the police said in their statement.
During interrogation, Raj Kumar disclosed that he was a permanent resident of Hapur in Uttar Pradesh and frequently travelled to Delhi’s Sadar Bazar, where he worked in a bag manufacturing unit, from 1990 to 1996.
According to the police, in 1996, one of Raj Kumar’s friends informed him that his cousin in Bhajanpura, Delhi, had sold a property for Rs 22 lakh and kept the money at home. The accused men planned to rob the house and on reaching the house, they killed the male member of the family but did not find the money inside the house, the police said.
“Frustrated, they raped one of the women present in the house (the sister-in-law of the deceased) and then brutally murdered the entire family, including two children,” the police said in the statement.
Story continues below this ad
The accused then looted valuables from the house and fled.
While on the run, Raj Kumar got married and had been living on rent in Multan Nagar, Meerut, with his wife and four children, and working as a labourer, said an officer.
Advertising by Adpathway
