Ahmedabad, May 25 -- The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has successfully traced and apprehended a high-profile death-row convict who had been missing for over a decade after jumping parole in 2013.

The individual was originally convicted for his involvement in a brutal 1994 homicide and robbery case at the Neelam Hotel in Ahmedabad. He had chopped off the head of the victim, who was a hotel guest and carried it in a bag till Adalaj, Gujarat.

The convict, identified as Satish Himmatlal Rupa Relia alias Bhikhu alias Sanjay Thakkar, was the primary accused in Sessions Case No. 56/1995. In April 2000, the Additional City Sessions Court of Ahmedabad sentenced him to death by hanging for murder, robbery, and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal...