A killer, now aged 60, was finally arrested on Tuesday, for the murder of a Lower Parel resident in 1980. Narayan Pawar had spent one year in jail as an undertrial but disappeared after securing bail in 1981.

Pawar, a Std IV pass from Kolhapur, had come to Mumbai as a 21-year-old to earn a living in the '80s. He finally found work with a sugarcane juice centre. "There he began to be troubled by a local bhai. The bhai regularly harassed Pawar for money and humiliated him," an officer from NM Joshi Marg police station said. Unable to take it anymore, Pawar hatched a plan to kill the bhai.