India, Aug. 6 -- A man who allegedly reinvented himself as a small-town "doctor", married, raised a family and quietly ran a clinic in Madhya Pradesh while evading law for nearly 28 years over the murder of a cop has been finally arrested by the Delhi Police.

Rajinder Bairagi alias Rajinder Singh Yadav alias "Dr Jhatka" (53), a proclaimed offender in multiple cases in Delhi and Haryana, had been absconding since escaping from Uttar Pradesh Police custody in 1999 while being escorted in handcuffs from Ghaziabad Jail to a court in Haryana, an official said on Thursday.

"He was arrested from Mungaoli in Madhya Pradesh's Ashok Nagar district after a months-long multi-state operation by the Crime Branch," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime...