Overview

• Ajay Lamba was arrested on July 6 by the Delhi Police Crime Branch after decades of manual and technical surveillance tracking him across India and Nepal.
• He is accused of four murder-robbery cases from 1999 to 2001 in which cab drivers were sedated, strangled in Uttarakhand hills, and their vehicles smuggled into Nepal.
• To evade capture, Lamba adopted a false identity in 1996, lived in Nepal from 2008 to 2018, and later settled in Dehradun with his family.
• One victim’s body has been recovered while authorities search for the remains of three other cab drivers who remain missing.
• Authorities have detained associate Dhirendra Dilip Pandey and are still seeking accomplice Dheeraj as they investigate Lamba’s involvement in drug trafficking and jewellery dacoity.