A former Army man, on the run for over 20 years after jumping parole while serving a life sentence for killing his wife, has been arrested from Madhya Pradesh, the Delhi police said on Monday.

In 1989, the accused, Anil Kumar Tiwari, 58, who worked as a driver in the Indian Army’s Ordnance Corps, had strangled his wife and set her on fire in Delhi. Although he tried to make the death look like a suicide, he was convicted of her murder and sentenced to jail for life.

Tiwari was granted a two-week parole in 2005 by the Delhi High Court during which time he fled the city. On April 12, he was arrested from his native village in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh by the Delhi police’s Crime Branch.

DCP (Crime Branch) Aditya Gautam said that the accused evaded arrest for two decades by not using mobile phones, making only cash transactions and frequently changing his residence and job. The accused has also revealed that he has remarried and has four children from his second marriage, the DCP added.