Mumbai, Aug. 5 -- Maharashtra police has arrested a convicted murderer from Punjab, who was absconding for approximately four years after he was granted parole by the jail authorities, officials said here today.
Crime Branch Unit 2 of the Vasai-Virar Police which comes under Maharashtra police arrested convict, Shankar Jagdish Mukhiya alias Samosewala, from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district in Punjab after a sustained two-month manhunt.
Mukhiya, a resident of Dhaniv Baug Talav area in Nalasopara area of neighbouring Palghar district, was convicted for the 2016 murder of Dilip Raghunath Basnet.
The crime occurred on the evening of September 15, 2016, when a dispute erupted between Mukhiya and Basnet after Mukhiya made lewd remarks abou...