A double-murder convict who had been on the run for nearly a decade after jumping parole has been arrested from Gujarat’s Godhra, Delhi Police said on Tuesday.
Hasin Hussan, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 by a Delhi court for killing two of his neighbours and attempting to murder another in the Welcome area in 2006, Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said. His sentence was upheld by the Delhi High Court in 2015.
In December 2016, Hussan was granted four weeks’ parole by the high court to file an appeal in the Supreme Court. However, instead of surrendering once his parole ended, he absconded and remained untraceable for years, the officer said.
Police said they recently received specific information about Hussan’s whereabouts. A raiding team tracked him down in Godhra, where he had been living for the past four years and selling clothes on the streets.
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During interrogation, Hussan disclosed that after jumping parole, he managed to evade arrest by moving across states, spending three years each in Assam and Madhya Pradesh before eventually settling in Gujarat.
Giving details of the case, police said that on March 27, 2006, Hussan, along with his associates, attacked the family of a neighbour following a dispute over a marriage alliance.
Armed with firearms and knives, the accused barged into the complainant’s house in Janta Colony, Welcome area, and shot dead Pappu and his mother Anisha. The complainant’s sister, Heena, was also attacked with knives but survived, police said.
A total of eight people were named in the case. Four, including Hussan, were convicted in 2013, while the others were either acquitted or convicted later on appeal, according to police.
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