Mumbai, Aug 25 (PTI) A 35-year-old man who jumped parole three years ago while serving a life sentence in Yerwada jail in Pune was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, a Mumbai police official said on Friday.

Acting on specific information, a team of Mumbai Crime Branch's Unit V held him from Mirzapur in the northern state, he said.

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"The man is a resident of Jogeshwari East and was sentenced life imprisonment in February 2017 for a murder in 2011 under MIDC police limits. In June 2020, he was released on parole and then did not return to prison. He was declared an absconder on August 4 last year," the official said.

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