The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
On the run for 24 yrs, murder accused held
In 2000, pap pu ya dav, then 28, allegedly killed an employee a this factory in delhi following an alter cation. for 24 years, pap pu eluded Delhi Police as he went about changing cities and professions. He was recently nabbed from his village deok ali in bi ha r' s na land a.
According to police, in 2000, Pap pu, now 52, established a plastic factory in West Delhi' s Matiala where he employed Sakinder Yadav, Vijay Yadav, the victim Ramswaroop Yadav, and Rams waroop’ s brother-in-law, all of whom belonged to his village. Pappu's brother Montu also worked in the same factory.
Around this time, an altercation ensued between Ramswaroop and Pappu. After Ramswaroop’s kin went back to his village, Pappu, along with Montu,Vija ya ndSa kinder, strangled him to death and hid his body under a rubble of raw plastic, said police.
A few days later, on February 4, 2000, the victim’s brother, Chando Yadav, registered a complaint tha this 32-year-old brother was missing, said Satish Kumar, DCP, Crime Branch. Upon questioning, Pappu said that Ramswaroop left the factory to work elsewhere. “But when police went to the factory premises for checking, they found parts of Ramswaroop’s body in a decomposed state inside plastic bags,” said the DCP.
A case was registered and Montu and Vijay were arrested. Pappu and Sakinder were absconding, said police.
On May 26, 2000, Pappu was declared a proclaimed offender.
Pap pure maine don the run for the next 24 years. his first stop was Surat, Gujarat, where he worked for a couple of years at a cloth mill. He then went to Kolkata, West Bengal, where he worked for six to seven years as a labourer. He finally settled in pat na, bi har,w here he lived for the next several years until the Covid-19 pandemic when he came back to his village, said police.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, a police team began working on cases of absconding criminals. around this time, information about Pappu surfaced. Based on a tip-off, a raid was conducted to nab the accused and he was arrested, said police.
His accomplice Sakinder remains on the run.