A day after the alleged gruesome murder of a youngster in an apartment at Edachira near Kakkanad was unearthed, the police nabbed the key suspect, Arshad, from Manjeshwaram in Kasaragod on Wednesday afternoon.
Addressing the media here, District Police Chief (Kochi City) C.H. Nagaraju said he was picked up with the help of the Kasaragod police from near the railway station, foiling his alleged attempt to cross the border to Karnataka. A team from the Kochi city police is expected to bring him here late on Wednesday night.
The body of Sajeev Krishna, 23, from Malappuram was found wrapped in a bed sheet and shoved into a duct in the apartment, by his room-mates who entered the apartment using a duplicate key after repeated attempts to reach the victim failed. Arshad, a resident of Payyoli in Kozhikode, who had been reportedly staying in the apartment had gone missing since then.
