Overview
- Chandra Shekhar Prasad, in his 80s, was caught in an Alipur factory storeroom on Wednesday after the Delhi Crime Branch laid a trap.
- Police say he confessed to bludgeoning his wife at their Shakarpur home on October 19, 1986, a case recorded as FIR 375/1986 under murder provisions.
- Investigators reopened the file this year and watched mobile numbers tied to his family to confirm sightings in Nalanda and track him back to Delhi.
- Officers say he dodged arrest for decades by moving across Bihar, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi under aliases, including work as a rickshaw puller and time in an ashram.
- He told police that three accomplices have died, a claim now being checked, and the arrest shows how modern surveillance can revive pre-digital cases.