Editor Mr.Mayank Rawat ( Chief Editor Mr. Rohit Mishra )
New Delhi: An electrician living a quiet life in Bihar’s Nalanda district, known locally as a family man running a modest repair shop, turned out to be Mohammad Malik, a convicted murderer who killed an inmate inside Tihar Jail in 1997 and vanished after jumping parole in 2009. Malik, now 57, was arrested on May 14 by a team from Delhi Police’s crime branch. According to police, Malik was serving a life sentence for the murder in which he and three other inmates had attacked two fellow prisoners with knives inside Tihar Jail. “The incident, which took place due to a rivalry among inmates, led to the death of one prisoner, Dharamvir, in 1997. A case was registered at Hari Nagar police station and Malik was convicted in 2005,” DCP (crime branch) Harsh Indora said.In 2009, Malik was granted four weeks’ parole, but never returned. “He went underground, changed his identity and started a new life in Bihar. He got married, had two children and opened an electrical repair shop in Nalanda’s Bihar Sharif, where he was known locally as a quiet family man,” Indora added. “Malik was living under a different name and kept a low profile to avoid detection. Working as an electrician, he blended into the local community,” an officer said. Police said the arrest came after new intelligence inputs were developed as part of an operation against absconders. Malik was handed over to the jail authorities to serve the remainder of his life sentence. TNN
Mayank Rawat
