New Delhi, March 31 -- A former Army captain, Sandeep Tomar, who had been evading arrest for nearly four years after being convicted of murdering his wife, has been apprehended in Madhya Pradesh's Pandhurna district. His arrest was carried out on Saturday through a joint operation involving Fazilka Police and NATGRID (National Intelligence Grid).

Tomar was found guilty of strangling his wife, Shweta Singh, in 2013 at the Abohar Cantonment in Punjab, just five months after their marriage. At the time, he claimed that she had taken her own life. However, forensic evidence later confirmed that she had been strangled. A local court sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2014, following which he was dismissed from the Army, The Times of India ...