'Dead' man walking: 45-year-old killed 5 years ago now living with new wife in Delhi

MEERUT: A 45-year-old man from UP's Baghpat, who had gone missing and reported "dead" to police, was found alive in Delhi after nearly five years, police said on Sunday. He was found working as a taxi driver, and living with a woman and four children.
According to police, Yogendra Kumar, a resident of Singhawali Ahir in Baghpat, had gone missing in 2018 after a criminal case was registered against him and his two brothers by a villager, Ved Prakash, following a brawl.
SHO of Singhawali Ahir, Jitendra Singh, said, "Kumar was booked under IPC sections 325 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), following which he went missing. His family suspected Prakash of killing him and wanted a police case against the latter." In April of last year, following a court order, an FIR under IPC sections 364 (kidnapping) and 302 (murder) was registered against Prakash and two others. But police, after eight months of investigation, couldn't find substantial evidence to prove that Kumar was dead.
On Sunday, Baghpat police said they traced Kumar's whereabouts to Delhi after he landed up in a court to secure pending bail. "He was working as a taxi driver and retained his identity. He had married another woman, with whom he has four children," the SHO said.
SHO Singh said: "During questioning, Kumar told police that he had a rivalry with Prakash and was also having an extra-marital affair with a woman in Delhi's Rohini. In 2018, after he was booked, he left home and started living with her in Delhi while his family in UP thought that he had been kidnapped and killed."
Meanwhile, Kumar's wife in Baghpat, Rita, said, "He neither visited us since 2018 nor he spoke to any one of us. We always wanted the police to get to the truth..."