After having evaded law enforcement authorities for over 26 years, an Indian man accused of committing a murder in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1999 was finally caught by a team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 11.
Mohammad Dilshad was nabbed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi as he returned from Madinah via Jeddah under a new identity and passport, said a CBI official on Saturday.
Dilshad worked as a heavy motor mechanic and security guard in Riyadh where he allegedly murdered a person in 1999, after which he gave a slip to Saudi authorities and fled to India.
Belonging to Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, Dilshad assumed a new identity and acquired a passport through deceptive means, said the official.
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At the request of Saudi Arabia, the CBI took over the case in April, 2022, to trace the absconder and began tracking his whereabouts.
A look-out circular (LOC) was issued by the federal probe agency, but because Dilshad continued to travel internationally using his new passport, information based on his old travel documents was ineffective in tracing him down.
"During the course of investigation, it was found out that Dilshad used to travel to Qatar, Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia based on the identity he acquired by deceitful means," a CBI spokesperson said.
A fresh LOC was then issued after the agency developed various technical leads and human intelligence to detect the new passport.
Not knowing about the development, Dilshad conveniently arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on August 11, returning from Madinah via Jeddah, where he was taken into custody by the CBI upon being alerted by the immigration department.
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