The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has launched a fresh a man-hunt to nab long-time fugitives.

The CIB, which looks into complex and unresolved cases, has in the past one month arrested five persons who had evaded the law for over a decade.

The law enforcement agency recently arrested Man Bahadur Budhathoki, who had been hiding in Noida of India’s Uttar Pradesh. Budhathoki was on the run for the last 20 years after murdering six women. He was involved in as many as 32 rape cases in Dhanusha and Mahottari, according to police.

Similarly, on June 15, the CIB nabbed Ganesh Bahadur Tandukar of Bhimsengola, Kathmandu, 22 years after being convicted in a hit-and-run case.

On August 7, 1994, Tandukar was driving a tempo (Ba A Ha 887) that hit a pedestrian Ram Kumar Jiwan, 59 along the Chabahil-Maharajgunj road stretch. Jiwan succumbed to injuries in while undergoing treatment at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital the next day. On January 24, 1995, Tandukar was slapped with a two-year jail term. He was on the run ever since.