India, Aug. 21 -- A most-wanted criminal from Bihar, Bootan Janeshwar Chaudhary alias Harendra Chaudhary, was arrested on Monday from the Tungareshwar forest in Vasai in an operation jointly carried out by the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar Crime branch and Bihar's Special Task Force. He has been on the run for several years, after committing over 20 serious crimes of murder, extortion and robbery, and he is also suspected to have carried out terrorist activities in Bihar, said a police officer.

According to the police, Chaudhary had fled Bihar in 2022 and had been hiding in Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Vasai East with a changed identity. The Bihar STF had approached the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar police commissioner Niket Kaushik on S...