COIMBATORE: The key accused in the killing of a Hindu Munnani functionary here has been arrested, the police said on Tuesday.


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Mohammed Mubarak (28), who was on the run for the last one year, was arrested from a place near Pollachi in the district last night, they added.


According to the police, as a hunt was on for two-three persons for their alleged involvement in the killing, the Special Investigation Division of the CB-CID had received a tip-off, following which Mubarak was arrested.


Four persons were earlier arrested in connection with the killing of C Sasikumar, who was hacked to death on the night of September 22 last year by two bike-borne assailants.


Mubarak, a resident of Saibaba Colony here, was produced before a court here, which remanded him to judicial custody till January 9, the police said.