Kozhikode:
The Special Investigation team (SIT), probing the murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader TP Chandrasekharan, has arrested one of the gang members who allegedly hacked him to death.
He was arrested in Mysore by SIT and would be produced at a court near Vadakara on Wednesday evening, police said.
SIT is also verifying whether the man, who was reportedly injured in the attack had got himself admitted to a hospital in the Kannur district.
He was allegedly an accomplice of NK Sunil Kumar, the prime accused in the case. Srijith's arrest by the SIT takes the number of those held in the case to 12.
Mr Chandrasekharan was murdered at Vallikkad near Vatakara in Kozhikode district on May 4.
The assailants attacked him while he was riding a motorcycle. Country-made bombs were hurled at him before he was hacked to death with sharp weapons.
A former CPI(M) leader in the party stronghold Onjiyam in Kozhikode district, he was expelled a few years back after falling out with the leadership. He later joined RMP, floated by CPI-M activists who had either quit the party over ideological issues or were expelled for anti-party activities.