The Sahibabad Police today claimed to have nabbed a dreaded criminal from the Delhi-UP border, who had allegedly killed a constable in the Gautam Budh Nagar district in 2015 and was absconding since then.
Dinesh Nagar alias Dujana carried a reward of Rs 25,000 for information leading to his arrest, SP, City, Akash Tomar said.
He said that on a secret tip-off the a man moving suspiciously near the inter-state border police post was nabbed. Upon frisking, the sleuths recovered a country made pistol of .315 bore and live cartridges from him, the SP added.
"He has been identified as Dinesh Nagar alias Dujana from Dujana village in the Badalpur police station area of district Gautama Budh Nagar. Two years ago he had shot dead a constable named Raj Kumar," Tomar said.
After murdering the constable he was absconding and the Gautama Budh Nagar police had declared a Rs 25,000 award on his arrest, he said.
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