After 17-year manhunt, Delhi Police nab rape-murder accused in hard chase inside moving train
The 20-hour-long operation, carried out over 1,100 kilometers, culminated in a tense three to four-hour search across multiple coaches of the Shramik Express before the accused was finally apprehended at Jalgaon Junction railway station in Maharashtra on May 7, the Crime Branch police said.
At the time of arrest, the man who goes by the fake name Mohammad Alam was en route to Valsad in Gujarat, the final destination of the Shramik Express, in an attempt to further escape legal proceedings.
Alam had been on the run since 2008 after allegedly murdering a man named Tokir Khan in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Despite the registration of a case, Alam managed to evade arrest for nearly two decades. According to the police, he was also declared a Proclaimed Offender in a rape and Pocso Act case in Delhi, where he was accused of raping his daughter. Despite being arrested and chargesheeted in that case, he absconded after jumping the interim bail he received during his trial in February 2023.
'On May 6, Head Constable Gaurav Chaudhary received credible secret information regarding a wanted criminal, Mohammad Alam…Acting on a combination of technical surveillance and manual intelligence, the team traced the suspect to Train No. 19052, the Shramik Express, travelling from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, towards Maharashtra and Gujarat, a team departed from Delhi on the same day and reached Itarsi Junction in Madhya Pradesh – a scheduled halt for the Shramik Express. Upon arrival of the train, the team boarded it, but the accused's exact location remained unknown,' said Apoorva Gupta, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch.
Undeterred, the officers launched an exhaustive search operation across the moving train. Over the next several hours, they combed through coach after coach until Alam was finally spotted and arrested at Jalgaon Junction, the police said.
Following his arrest, Alam was produced before a local court in Jalgaon and later brought to Delhi. During interrogation, he allegedly confessed to changing his appearance, location, and contact details repeatedly to avoid detection.
Born in Muzaffarpur in 1982 and educated only up to Class 5, Alam fled Bihar after the 2008 murder and relocated to Delhi, frequently shifting addresses to stay ahead of law enforcement.
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