The arrest of a 42-year-old man for his alleged involvement in a 16-year-old murder case in Maharashtra's Palghar district has brought to the fore his role in a similar crime committed in Uttar Pradesh in 1998, police said on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.

Avinash Lalta Prasad Soni and a few others were booked in 2009 in the murder of a man over brokerage money in Nalasopara. While the other accused were arrested, Soni fled to Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh and lived there for several years under a false identity, they said, reported PTI.