The Dehradun police on Saturday arrested a 59-year-old doctor from Haryana's Palwal area 26 years after he absconded. In 1994, a case of fraud was registered against the doctor for forging a recommendation letter for a gun license, a police official said.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, a local court had declared Sudhir Tiwari a fugitive in 1997. The accused had attached a recommendation letter with fake signatures of then chief minister ND Tiwari's personal assistant while applying for the license, sub-inspector Deepak Dhariwal, who led a four-member team that arrested Tiwari, said.