Mumbai: Man who jumped parole while serving life sentence in murder case held in UP

A 35-year-old man who jumped parole three years ago while serving a life sentence in Yerwada jail in Pune was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, a Mumbai police official said.

Acting on specific information, a team of Mumbai Crime Branch’s Unit V held him from Mirzapur in the northern state, he said. The man is a resident of Jogeshwari East and was sentenced life imprisonment in February 2017 for a murder in 2011 under MIDC police limits.

In June 2020, he was released on parole and then did not return to prison. He was declared an absconder on August 4 last year, the official said.