Two absconding criminals were arrested over two decades after they allegedly stabbed a woman and her two-year-old daughter over business rivalry in south Delhi, police said on Friday.

Amalesh Kumar had been on the run for the last 23 years, while his accomplice Sushil Kumar had absconded after jumping parole 18 years ago, they said.

"Amalesh, a resident of Bihar's Shivhar district and a proclaimed offender in the case, had been living and working as a labourer in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Sushil, his co-accused, had been awarded the death penalty by a trial court, which was later commuted to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Pankaj Kumar said.

Sushil absconded in 2007 while on parole and had since lived in different parts of Bihar, Karnataka, Guj

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