In a startling turn of events, a septuagenarian ascetic found himself apprehended on charges pertaining to a homicide allegedly perpetrated more than two and a half decades ago in the precincts of Okhla, Delhi, as divulged by law enforcement officials on Tuesday.
According to reports, a cadre from the crime branch undertook an arduous endeavor, functioning as altruistic aides in communal feasts for a duration spanning three days, all in pursuit of identifying and apprehending the implicated individual. Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime), Amit Goel, disclosed that the individual in question was identified as Ramdas, also known as Tillu. He had been at large since the incident involving the demise of a truck aide amidst a property-related dispute back in 1997.
Following a tip-off suggesting Ramdas’s potential whereabouts in Rishikesh, the aforementioned team succeeded in effecting his capture on the aforementioned day. Ramdas, during interrogation, purportedly confessed to fleeing to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh subsequent to the commission of the crime, whereupon he assumed an alternative persona and procured falsified credentials.
Subsequent investigations revealed that he had metamorphosed into an itinerant mendicant, traversing various sacred sites, encompassing but not limited to Haridwar and Rishikesh, as elucidated by Goel. The officer elaborated on the reconnaissance efforts conducted by the team within the vicinity of Rishikesh, where they assumed the mantle of benevolent alms distributors at temples proximate to the purported location.
Following an exhaustive stint of altruistic service spanning three consecutive days, the team succeeded in ascertaining his identity and effecting his apprehension in the vicinity of Geeta Bhawan in Rishikesh, Goel affirmed.
