India, Sept. 8 -- The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday arrested a 50-year-old woman who had been absconding for over five and a half years in connection with a dowry death case registered at Mandawali police station in east Delhi.

The accused, Kaushalya Devi, had been declared a proclaimed offender by a Delhi court in March 2023 for evading arrest in the alleged murder of her sister-in-law, 25-year-old Neeraj, in December 2019.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vikram Singh said Neeraj was allegedly strangled to death at her in-laws' residence in Mandawali by Kaushalya and other relatives, including the victim's husband, Bhram Singh. While Bhram and another accused, Ram Avtar, were arrested shortly after the incident, Kaushalya m...