India, April 10 -- A 48-year-old woman who posed as an ayurveda "doctor" for five years and caused the death of a pregnant woman during an illegal surgery was allegedly arrested on Tuesday after nine years on the run, police said.

Declared a proclaimed offender in 2016, the woman, had vanished after skipping bail in a criminal case registered in 2011. She was finally tracked down in Greater Kailash-2, where she had created a false identity and had started working as a medical caretaker for an elderly man.

The accused, who claimed to be an Ayurveda doctor, had forged a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) degree. A team led by inspectors Kamal Kumar and Satendra Mohan arrested her after putting her relatives under surveillan...