India, Dec. 10 -- New Delhi

The Delhi Police's Crime Branch solved a 25-year-old murder case by arresting a 60-year-old man from Bihar's Darbhanga district, where the raiding team faced resistance from a mob of locals, who created chaos and tried to help the suspect escape, officers aware of the development said on Tuesday.

On February 6, 2000, the accused, identified as Satish Yadav, is alleged to have hacked to death his roommate, Sajan Singh, with an axe at their rented room in north Delhi's Roop Nagar, after the victim had slapped him during an altercation over food expense accounts a day before. Yadav, who was 35 at the time of the crime, fled the scene immediately and continued to evade the police for more than 25 years by moving ...