India, July 24 -- A 52-year-old suspect who has been on the run for the last 27 years was arrested near Faridabad railway station on Wednesday, police said on Thursday.

The suspect, identified by police as Suresh Singh, is originally from Amoghpur Bhatan village in Uttar Pradesh. He had changed his identity and had been living in Sector 29, Faridabad for the last several years, police said.

According to investigators, he had been changing his location for the past 27 years by shifting to UP, Delhi, and Rajasthan to evade arrest in a murder case from 1999.

Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said Suresh and two of his associates had assaulted Jawahar Singh and Jag Mohan following a petty dispute while consuming ...