Ahmedabad, June 21 -- The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested Mohammad Taslim, alias Mohammad Umar Sheikh, a convicted gangster associated with the notorious Abdul Latif gang, who had been absconding since jumping parole in 2019, police said on Sunday.

According to the Crime Branch, Taslim, who is serving a life sentence in the 1992 Radhika Gymkhana mass murder case and the murder of former Rajya Sabha member Rauf Valiullah, was apprehended after a coordinated operation based on specific human intelligence and field inputs.

Police said Taslim had fled while on temporary parole in 2019 and had since been evading arrest by frequently changing his identity, locations and means of communication across multiple states. Acting on fresh intell...