The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one more person in connection with the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Sreenivasan.
Shihab, aka Babu, a former member of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), was picked up from his house in Malappuram. A press statement issued by the NIA in Delhi on Friday said that Mr. Shihab had been on the run since the slaying of Sreenivasan at Melamuri, Palakkad, on April 16, 2022.
Sreenivasan was hacked to death by a six-member gang of PFI men while he was sitting at his shop at Melamuri around 1.30 p.m. on April 16, 2022. The murder was in apparent retaliation for the killing of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) worker A. Mohammed Subair the previous day (April 15, 2022) at Elappully, near Palakkad.
