New Delhi, Oct 12 The Delhi Police has apprehended a convicted drug offender who had been absconding since failing to surrender before jail authorities after the expiry of his COVID-19 parole in 2021, an officer said on Monday.
The accused, Ajay Jarwal Torela (40), was convicted in a 2011 case involving the recovery of 161.2 kilogrammes of cannabis in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, police said.
He was released on parole on May 15, 2021, but did not return to jail after the parole period ended. Around two-and-a-half years of his sentence remained pending, police said.
A team tracked him and apprehended him from Chander Vihar in Delhi. The accused had been changing his places of stay to evade arrest and was working as an auto-rickshaw driver, police said.
(PTI News)
