New Delhi, July 6 -- A serial killer, who was on the run for around two-and-a-half decades, was arrested by the police in the national capital.

The accused, identified as 49-year-old Ajay Lamba alias Banshi, was wanted in four brutal robbery-cum-murder cases lodged against him in Delhi, and Haldwani, Almora and Champawat districts of Uttarakhand.

In all the cases, including a 2001 murder case registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station in Delhi, he was declared a proclaimed offender.

According to the police, Lamba was the alleged mastermind behind a string of heinous crimes committed between 1999 and 2001, in which he, along with associates, targeted taxi drivers, killed them, looted their vehicles and dumped the bodies in remote ...