A 45-year-old man from Punjab, who has been absconding for the last 19 years in a case of abducting and raping a minor girl in his home state in 1998, was arrested from Deolali Camp area near here today, the police said.
A joint squad of the Punjab and Haryana Police located and picked up Sukhdev Singh from Lahvitgaon, where he has been staying since the last two years, a local police official said.
Singh hails from Hoshiyarpur district of Punjab.
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DCP Vijay Magar said Singh had been evading arrest for long and always managed the police to give a slip.
Singh was produced before a magistrate who granted his transit remand to the Punjab Police.
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