A court in New Delhi Thursday sentenced a Nepali man to death for murdering five people, including four members of a family, AFP reported from New Delhi.

Stating there was “reliable and clinching” evidence against Tika Ram, additional session judge C.K. Chaturvedi ordered that “he be hanged till death,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

The murders took place in January 1996 when Ram was working as a servant in a house in the upper market Vasant Kunj area of the capital New Delhi. Police said he clubbed to death another servant and four members of the family he was working for using a hammer and a sharp-edged weapon. He fled after the killings but was later found on the India-Nepal border and arrested.

Ram had confessed to the murder saying he had been “irked with the behaviour” of the head of the family and his son, police said,