Orijol Rukaj was on pallbearer duties when he evaded corrections staff – and has been on the run for the six weeks since

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Police say it was a busy funeral – with about 300 people gathering at a Melbourne cemetery on Anzac Day to farewell the brother of Orijol Rukaj.

Before assuming his duties as a pallbearer, Rukaj was escorted to the Keilor East service by corrections staff. But corrections staff didn’t bring him back to prison.

Sunil Sharma disappeared in Punjab state on 22 May, with police arresting four people, including his brother

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An Australian teacher who went missing in India for two weeks was allegedly murdered by his brother over a property dispute, police say.

Melbourne maths teacher Sunil Sharma disappeared on 22 May after he travelled to Amritsar, in India’s north-western Punjab state.