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New Delhi, April 25, 2026: Delhi Police have arrested popular YouTuber Saleem Wastik, who had been living under a false identity for 26 years after jumping bail in a 1995 kidnapping and murder case. Wastik, who gained online fame as an ‘ex-Muslim’, was originally known as Saleem Khan, a martial arts instructor convicted of killing a 13-year-old boy.

The 1995 Crime: On January 20, 1995, Sandeep Bansal, the son of a cement businessman, was kidnapped while heading to school. Despite the family following instructions to drop a ransom of Rs 30,000, the boy was found murdered in a drain in Mustafabad. Khan, the boy’s martial arts teacher, confessed to the crime and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1997. However, he escaped in 2000 after being granted interim bail and was declared an absconder.

Life in Hiding: To evade the law, Khan assumed multiple aliases and worked as a wardrobe maker in Haryana for a decade. In 2010, he reinvented himself as Saleem Wastik in Ghaziabad, opening a clothing store and launching a YouTube channel. He became known for his controversial views on religion and terrorism, even securing a Rs 1.5 million advance from a Bollywood producer for a biopic based on his assumed life story.

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