Key conspirator in Sudheesh murder case held
The Hindu
‘Ottakam’ Rajesh was caught from the KSRTC bus station in Kollam early on Monday
Bringing an end to a massive manhunt that lasted 10 days, the Thiruvananthapuram Rural police nabbed the key conspirator in the murder of 32-year old Sudheesh in Pothencode on Monday.
The second accused in the case, Rajesh alias ‘Ottakam’ Rajesh, 33, of Azhoor in Chirayinkeezhu was apprehended by the investigators from the KSRTC bus station in Kollam during the wee hours of the day. With his arrest, all the 11 people who are suspected to have direct involvement in the murder have been brought to book.
Rajesh was apprehended two days after a civil police officer, S. Balu, attached to the Special Armed Police (SAP) camp had drowned while a team had gone in his pursuit to an island near Varkala.
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