A life convict in a murder case in Telangana who had been on the run for the last six years after jumping parole was arrested in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Friday.
Boddu Thirupathi, 31, managed to evade arrest by severing all ties with his family, taking up a new identity and job in Andhra Pradesh, and even starting a new family by marrying a widow, according to the police.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 at Cherlapally Central Prison for a 2012 murder in Hyderabad‘s vanasthalipuram.
According to the Kodad police, Boddu Thirupathi was released on a 14-day parole in August 2019 but he never returned to the prison after visiting his family.
A case was then registered at the Mattampally police station following a complaint lodged by the jail superintendent.
“Boddu Thirupati had completely cut all his relations with his close and distant relatives and concealed his identity, even married a widow of Guntur, and was staying at Guntur, working in a hotel,” K Narasimha, Superintendent of Police, Suryapet, said in a statement.
The SP said he had reviewed all the pending cases after assuming charge in Suryapet and formed a new special team under the Kodad deputy superintendent of police to track Boddu Thirupati down.
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The police said they used the latest surveillance technologies, skimmed through databases and finally traced the absconding convict to Guntur.
Boddu Thirupati is being produced before the court and will be sent back to the Cherlapally Central Prison, the police added.
