Wanted criminal arrested from Palwal

Tribune News Service

Sonepat, October 24

The Special Task Force (STF) of the police has arrested a wanted criminal carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on him. The accused was convicted in a murder case. 

Inspector Satish Deswal, STF incharge, said the accused had been identified as Dharmender alias Shastri. Deswal said we got a tip off that Dharmender had to come to Palwal to commit some crime. After getting the information, the team laid a trap and he was arrested from Palwal. The accused was on the run from July 2015 after getting parole from the Bhondsi jail. The court had sentenced him to life term in the murder of Ajit of Rewara village in the Sampla area of Rohtak district in February 2003.

The Rohtak police had registered a case against him and announced Rs 25,000 reward on his arrest in July 2015. The accused hid himself in Bihar after committing crime in Haryana, Delhi, UP and Rajasthan by changing his identity and religion. He was living in Damalbari of Kishanganj in Bihar and changed his name to Sultan. He also got married (nikah) to a woman Ansari Begum alias Nisha, Deswal said.