Baripada (Orissa), Nov 06: Police today arrested Gondiram Mahanta, close associate of Dara Singh who is the main accused in the Graham Staines murder case, from a village in Mayurbhanj district, a senior police official said. Mahanta, an accused in the Shaikh Rehman killing in 1999, was arrested this morning from a house in Joribil village, Superintendent of Police Y B Khurania said. Dara is also an accused in the murder of Rehman, a trader in the Padiabeda weekly market under Thakurmunda police station. Mahanta had been absconding since the incident, Khurania said. Bureau Report