UP: Murder convict caught after 36 years hiding in plain sight
Pradeep Kumar Saxena, now 70, was finally arrested in Bareilly nearly four decades after killing his younger brother Sanjeev in 1987 over family tensions.
Convicted for murder, he was handed a life sentence but slipped away while out on parole in 1989.
Life on the run—and how police found him
Saxena reinvented himself as Abdul Rahim, converted to Islam, got married, and worked as a truck driver in Moradabad for years without anyone suspecting a thing.
His secret unraveled only after the Allahabad High Court demanded his appearance in November.
A special police team tracked him down through his brother Suresh and arrested him.
The case has exposed serious gaps—last year alone, just 3 out of 279 parole absconders were caught—raising big questions about how fugitives can disappear for so long.