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Time of India
10-05-2025
- Time of India
1 held for murder in 2008
New Delhi: A man was arrested on a train in Maharashtra in connection with the 2008 murder of a man in Bihar. During the inquiry, he was also found to allegedly have sexually assaulted his 2008, on Diwali, police in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, reported that Mohammad Alam and five accomplices murdered Tokir Khan. Alam stabbed Khan and then fled. Subsequently, a case was registered. While residing in Delhi, he became involved in another serious offence: the rape of his daughter, leading to his arrest and charge sheet. He later secured interim bail during the trial but then absconded and was declared a proclaimed the inquiry, the crime branch learned that the suspect was on the Shramik Express, travelling from Muzaffarpur towards Maharashtra and Gujarat."Officers initiated a search operation on the moving train. After an extensive search, the team successfully located and apprehended the accused at Jalgaon Junction, Maharashtra," police stated, adding that the search covered approximately 1,100 kilometres across several trains over 20 hours.
Indian Express
10-05-2025
- Indian Express
After 17-year manhunt, Delhi Police nab rape-murder accused in hard chase inside moving train
A 17-year-long manhunt came to a dramatic end inside a moving train when a team from the Delhi Police, tracked down and arrested a fugitive wanted for a 2008 murder case and a 2023 rape case. 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.
