Police had a suspect but no face, no known address. All they had was the misspelled name of his village in Bihar’s Nalanda district. From Bihar to Delhi’s Alipur, here’s how police nabbed this murder suspect and solved a cold case.
Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui was arrested on November 18 last year after the university came under the radar of security agencies following the November 10 blast outside the Red Fort.
Salim kidnapped and killed a child in 1995, and was convicted in 1997. He resurfaced on the Internet, and was attacked, allegedly for his views on Islam, by two brothers on Feb 27. Within days, police killed both brothers in encounters.