Eight years after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death in Delhi's New Ashok Nagar over her refusal to marry him, Arjun Kumar, alias Bhola (31), has been arrested at the Raxaul border point in Bihar. The suspect, who carried a Rs 1 lakh reward, fled a Nepalese prison during the deadly "Gen Z" protests that toppled the government earlier this month, police said. Kumar was apprehended by a Delhi Crime Branch team acting on intelligence about his attempt to return to his native Bihar.

The 2017 murder unfolded in a rented room where Kumar and the victim, a resident of the same building, had developed a relationship. When she rejected his marriage proposal and her family arranged an alternative match, Kumar allegedly stabbed her multiple times before slitting her throat on November 16, locking the room, and fleeing. The victim's father filed a missing person report the next day, naming Kumar as a suspect; her body was later discovered in the room, leading to a murder case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. Despite extensive searches, Kumar evaded capture and was declared a proclaimed offender.

Kumar resurfaced in Nepal, where he committed a similar crime: murdering the mother of his friend Nausad's married girlfriend by stabbing and slitting her throat, amid family opposition to the affair. Convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, he escaped during widespread jailbreaks triggered by the youth-led protests that began in early September 2025.

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Delhi Police's Crime Branch maintained long-term surveillance on Kumar post-conviction. DCP Harsh Indora noted that upon confirming the jailbreak, a strategic team was deployed at the porous India-Nepal border, where the Sashastra Seema Bal has detained over 60 Nepalese escapees. A Class 5 dropout with a history of violence, Kumar repeated his pattern abroad, underscoring the cross-border challenges in tracking fugitives. He will be produced in court for transit remand to Delhi, as investigations continue.

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