NEW DELHI: In a major breakthrough, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police cracked a decades-old double murder case by arresting two fugitives who had been on the run since the brutal killing of a woman and her two-year-old daughter in Sarita Vihar in 2002, the police said on Friday.
The duo — one a Proclaimed Offender for 23 years and the other a convicted killer who jumped parole 18 years ago — has finally been brought to justice.
The arrested men have been identified as Amalesh Kumar, a resident of Shivhar district in Bihar, and Sushil Kumar, the co-accused who was earlier awarded death penalty by the trial court that was later commuted to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court.
Amalesh, who vanished shortly after the January 28, 2002 murders, had remained elusive for over two decades.