Haryana: Jailed in murder case, man jumped parole, caught after 15 years

GURUGRAM: Jailed in Ambala for murder, 32-year-old Mohammad Ehsan bolted while he was on parole in 2007. Fifteen years on, after he turned 47, he was tracked down to Kerala, and brought back to Haryana.
The Haryana Police special task force (STF) arrested Ehsan from his rented room in Kozhikode, where he had settled with his wife and children, who had followed him all of these years from and all the way from Yamunanagar in the state.
The STF was working on a new initiative that involved searching for wanted criminals.
There was a reward of Rs 25,000 for information about Ehsan.
The man, jailed in a murder case in 2005, had been living there for the past six years - his longest stay since he absconded. He made a living by welding.
Police told TOI on Tuesday that Ehsan ran while he was out on parole for a few days from the Ambala District Jail.
He never looked back. Accompanied by his family, he lived in Jharkhand and West Bengal before entering Kerala.
The Haryana Police STF got in touch with Ehsan's extended family in Yamunanagar, police said. "They denied having any information on his whereabouts, but after searching for months with the help of technical surveillance, they pinpointed the convict's exact location to Kerala," an officer part of the STF said.
According to the cops, the key challenge was to identify Ehsan. A 32-year-old convict looked visibly different from the 47-year-old who lived a simple life in Kerala.
Ehsan will be produced before a court in Yamunanagar on Wednesday.
He will be taken into custody from there, and sent back to jail there.