The Karnataka police took into custody T.K. Rajeesh, who is serving life imprisonment in the T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case, from the Kannur Central Jail on Thursday afternoon.
He was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the seizure of guns from two persons in Bengaluru. The duo had stated that the guns were to be smuggled to Kerala on the instructions of Rajeesh.
On June 9, Neeraj Joseph, a Keralite, was arrested in Bengaluru with three pistols and 99 bullets. He was arrested while trying to smuggle the weapons on a luxury car within the Cubbon Park police station limits.