India, May 19 -- The Delhi Police crime branch claimed to have arrested a 70-year-old man for allegedly brutally assaulting and robbing an event manager in Dwarka in 2020, police said.

The accused, Brahamdev Bhagat, was declared a proclaimed offender by a Delhi court in December last year and was arrested from Bihar's Purnia.

Deputy commissioner of police (crime) Pankaj Kumar said Bhagat was the prime accused in the brutal attack on event manager Surinder Nanda in March 2020. "The accused was continuously changing locations and hiding in different cities to avoid arrest. After sustained technical surveillance and local intelligence gathering, our team tracked and apprehended him from Purnia, Bihar," Kumar said.

According to police, the...