The man was wanted for the murder of a teenage girl in Odisha, police said. (Representational)
A murder accused from Odisha on the run for the past three months was arrested from a factory in Sativali area of Vasai in Maharashtra's Palghar district, a police official said on Friday.
The man was wanted for the murder of a teenage girl in Ganjam district in Odisha and a case had been registered against him in Kodala police station there, he said.
"Acting on a tip off, Odisha police took the help of local police and nabbed the man. He was working in a factory in Sativali," Senior Inspector Kailas Barve of Valiv police station said.
He has been handed over the police in the eastern state for further action, Mr Barve said.
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