Who Is Saleem Wastik? Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested In Murder Case Following Stabbing Attack, Probe Underway

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested: Saleem Wastik, aka Salim Ahmed, has been arrested for a 1995 kidnapping and murder by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch. The accused was arrested some 22 years after the alleged crime and had been living under a different name. Wastik was arrested from Loni on the basis of a tip off, with police identifying him through old documents, his fingerprints and photographs. Recently, he was in the news because he escaped an attempted murder through stabbing which people believe was due to his controversial views.

Saleem Wastik: Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested, What Is The Case About?

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested: The story begins with the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Sandeep Bansal, son of a businessman in Delhi. The child was kidnapped on January 20, 1995 while he was on his way to school and his parents received a ransom call of Rs 30,000. But the boy was murdered and his body was later discovered in a drain in Mustafabad. At the time of the crime, police arrested a martial arts teacher at the victim’s school, Wastik and his friend. Both of these men were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1997.

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested: In 2000, Wastik was granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court but he did not return and absconded. He eluded the police for years by living in different places and using different names as he devised a hoax death certificate to fool the police. He reappeared in the public as a YouTube vlogger and self-styled activist who ran online websites and was working on a story for a movie about his life. According to police reports, he roamed between Haryana and Uttar Pradesh until he settled down in Loni from where he ran a women’s clothing business.

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested: Stabbing Attack

Saleem Wastik Ex-Muslim YouTuber Arrested: Wastik was the victim of a vicious stabbing attack at his home in February 2026 when two men slit his throat and stabbed him repeatedly. The assailants were tracked down by police who used CCTV footage and then both suspects were killed in a police encounter. This incident uncovered new aspects of his life which helped police find him. Wastik, who is currently in Tihar Jail, needs to answer to all of his past crimes as police have access to forensic technology that can solve cases that involve decades of crimes.

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