Murder convict who jumped parole arrested in Mumbai

NEW DELHI: A 46-year-old murder convict, Ajay Kumar Tripathi, who jumped parole during the COVID pandemic, was arrested in Mumbai on Sunday.

Tripathi had been serving a life sentence for kidnapping and murdering a child in Delhi in 2000. Granted parole in July 2021, he failed to return after it ended in September 2021. Police traced him to Chembur, where he worked as a delivery executive under a new identity.