Dr. Devender Sharma, infamously known as 'Doctor Death,' was apprehended by Delhi police in Rajasthan after absconding while on parole. Sharma, convicted for his involvement in the abduction and murder of truck and taxi drivers, as well as a kidney racket, had been living as a priest in an ashram.
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