In a major breakthrough, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police cracked a decades-old double murder case by arresting two fugitives who had been absconding since the 2002 killing of a woman and her two-year-old daughter in Sarita Vihar, officials said on Friday.

The duo, one a Proclaimed Offender for 23 years and the other a convicted killer who jumped parole 18 years ago, has finally been brought to justice.

According to the police, the arrested men have been identified as Amalesh Kumar, a resident of Shivhar district in Bihar, and Sushil Kumar, the co-accused who was earlier awarded death penalty by the trial court that was later commuted to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court.

Amalesh, who disappeared soon after the murders on January 28, 2002, had evaded arrest for more than two dec

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