Life convict arrested after 26 years in Rs 1 crore kidnapping case

Amit Yadav, 57, a life convict in a 1995 kidnapping-for-ransom case, was arrested in Dehradun on August 13 after 26 years on the run. He had jumped interim bail granted by the Delhi High Court in January 2000 and assumed a new identity as a builder, according to Rediff.com. NDTV reports that he initially fled to Rishikesh, frequently changing hideouts, before moving to Dehradun in 2001.

Yadav was convicted in 1999 for kidnapping Rishi Sethi and demanding Rs 1 crore ransom. At his initial arrest in Meerut, Rs 10 lakh was recovered from him. A Crime Branch team tracked him using biometric records from 1999, as no photograph was available. A reward of Rs 5,000 had been declared for his arrest in 2000. He was produced before a court and sent to judicial custody.