The accused, Ramesh Kumar, a native of Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, was wanted in a 2016 murder case registered at Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Jammu, they said.
Following his detention, the accused was handed over to the investigating officer from the Jammu and Kashmir Police, who formally arrested him in the case.
According to the police, Kumar was working as a construction labourer in Jammu when he allegedly hit her daughter on the head with a stick, suspecting that she was not his biological child, a senior police officer said.
The girl later succumbed to her injuries during treatment, the officer said.
According to the police, after committing the crime, the accused fled Jammu and remained absconding for several years. He later started living under the false name “Rajveer” in Delhi.
