India, July 19 -- Faridabad Police have launched a large-scale verification and surveillance exercise targeting people accused in serious criminal cases over the past decade, identifying 628 alleged offenders who were not found at their recorded addresses and against whom proceedings to declare them bail jumpers have been initiated, officials said on Sunday.

The exercise is being carried out under the Rohtak-Jhajjar-Sonipat-Faridabad (RJSF) pilot project, which was launched in Rohtak in April and extended to Jhajjar, Sonipat and Faridabad in June. The Faridabad police drive began in the first week of June and covers people arrested in the last 10 years in cases of murder, attempted murder, robbery, dacoity, extortion, offences under the ...