Ex-Navy man wanted for Delhi murder in 2004 fakes his death, arrested 19 yrs on

It took a long time, but the ruse was finally over late last month, when he was arrested by the Delhi Police.

For 19 years, Balesh Kumar, a west Delhi resident, was believed to have been killed in a truck that caught fire in 2004, 18 days after he absconded from a murder scene in Delhi. Police said that he had changed his name to “Aman Singh” and had also managed to procure fake IDs to support this new life.

Not only did Kumar start his life afresh after feigning death, he also managed to bring his wife and their two children to live with him in outer Delhi’s Najafgarh 2011 onwards.