Living under fake identity for 40 years, man held in Gonda
Kanpur, Nov. 22 -- In a breakthrough that closes one of the oldest pending murder manhunts in the city, the police have arrested a 70-year-old man who had been absconding for four decades.
The accused, Prem Prakash alias Pappu, was 30 when he and his associates allegedly murdered a man in 1982 and were subsequently arrested.
After spending two years in jail, he secured bail, but stopped appearing before the court in 1985. A non-bailable warrant was issued, and since then he had disappeared without a trace.
ACP Kotwali and Pheelkhana police began a fresh probe by constituting a special team. Investigators finally traced Prakash to Gonda, where he had been living under the assumed identity of Prem Kumar and had severed all links with his native locality-Bengali Mohal in Kanpur. htc...
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