Overview
- Narottam Prashad, 40, was arrested on November 5 from Chhota Udaipur in Vadodara district after technical surveillance and manual intelligence led a Crime Branch team to his location.
- Police say he lived under a false identity for about 15 years in Gujarat and worked as a cotton factory manager while avoiding contact with relatives.
- During interrogation, he confessed to strangling his 25-year-old wife and planting a fake suicide note following marital disputes, according to investigators.
- The case began on May 31, 2010, when officers forced entry into a locked Jahangirpuri home and found the woman's partially decomposed body alongside a purported suicide note.
- He had been declared a proclaimed offender with a Rs 10,000 reward announced for information, and further investigation and legal proceedings are underway in Delhi.