Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday arrested notorious serial killer Ajay Lamba alias Bansi, who was known for his brutal robbery-cum-murder cases targeting cab drivers across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand during the year 2001. Bansi would hire taxis for interstate travel, sedate and murder the driver, dump his body and then pawn the vehicle to Nepal. He is said to be involved in at least four such killings, but the police suspect the count could be more. He had been absconding for the last 25 years. "The accused, a notorious robber-cum-murderer, was involved in four brutal robbery-cum-murder cases targeting cab drivers across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand during the year 2001. He would hire taxis with accomplices, murder the drivers, rob the vehicles, and dispose of the bodies in remote mountainous regions to avoid detection," Aditya Gautam, Deputy Commissioner of Police, said in a statement, The Times of India reported. The cab would then be smuggled across the border and sold in Nepal. Also Read: WATCH | Hyderabad Drug Smuggler Hides 10 Kg Ganja Behind Photos Of God, Would Perform Pooja To Dodge Suspicions How Bansi's recent ganja supply business got him arrested Lamba had dropped out of school after Class VI and was declared a "bad character" by the Vikas Puri police in his early years. In 1996, he changed his name and moved to Bareilly, according to the report. Police say Lamba lived in Nepal from 2008 to 2018 before settling in Dehradun with his family and suspect that he and his gang members could be involved in more killings. Of the four victims, only one cab driver's body was recovered. Lamba has several other cases against him, ranging from theft to illegal possession of arms, police have said. After tracking him for years, he was caught because of his trail in subsequent cases after he became a ganja supplier in 2020, and then robbed a jewellery store in Odisha. Also Read: 'Buried Bodies Of Rape Victims Since 1998': Ex-Sanitation Worker Confesses History Of Crime To Karnataka Police "In 2020, he allegedly became involved in the ganja supply chain from Odisha to other parts of India, including Delhi. He was recently arrested in a case registered under the NDPS Act in 2021 in PS Sagarpur, Delhi and again in a jewellery shop dacoity case in Behrampur, Odisha, in 2024. He was on bail in these cases. He never disclosed his involvement (in the 2001 murders) and absconding status to anyone," the police statement said. Two of Lamba's gang members were arrested earlier. Police are now questioning him.