MOHALI: After an eight-year-hunt, Mohali police have arrested Gaurav Kumar, wished for the double homicide of senior journalist KJ Singh and his mom, Gurcharan Kaur. Kumar was arrested in Noida Thursday. Kumar incessantly modified cities and jobs to keep away from detection and had managed to construct a brand new id for himself, say police. His employers had been surprised to study that he was an absconder in a high-profile homicide case. The “mannequin employee” had been promoted from safety guard to supervisor at a building agency in the previous few years and had married. However police stayed on his path. The chase become a dash within the final 10 days when suggestions from elders in his village turned the chilly path scorching. Kumar was taken utterly unexpectedly when a workforce from Mohali police’s “Proclaimed Offenders Employees” surrounded him. He has been dropped at Mohali and might be produced in courtroom. The Singhs had been discovered murdered at their dwelling in Mohali through the intervening night time of September 22-23, 2017. The killings despatched shockwaves throughout Punjab. SSP Harmandeep Singh Hans mentioned sustained surveillance and intelligence inputs lastly led to the accused. “The motive of homicide was spontaneous. KJ Singh noticed this man sitting close to the boundary wall of his home and requested him to go away. The opposite man acquired offended and entered his home to kill him and his mom,” Hans mentioned. Police recognized Kumar because the suspect and registered a case at Mataur police station on September 23, 2017. However Kumar was nowhere to be discovered. He was declared a proclaimed offender in 2022. DSP Naveen Pal Singh mentioned that when the case was handed to him, he and his workforce started “connecting proof” and went to Kumar’s native village. With the assistance of sarpanches and panches, police traced him to Noida, the place he was caught. Singh mentioned, “He was traced to a building website in Noida. He joined the agency as a safety guard and was elevated to supervisor earlier than being made supervisor of the challenge. Based on his employer, his conduct was excellent... They had been shocked to know that he’s a double-murder accused.”