In connection with Bengaluru violence case, Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested Former corporator Abdul Rakeed Zakir, he was on the run for nearly two months.
Confirming the arrest, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Patil said, “Zakir, the accused in DJ Halli case, has been arrested yesterday (Wednesday) night.”
The arrest comes a fortnight after former Congress mayor R Sampath Raj was arrested in the case.
Zakir, a former corporator of Pulkeshinagar ward, was named as an accused in an interim chargesheet filed on October 12. As per the chargesheet, he was part of the conspiracy that led to the torching of Pulikeshinagar MLA Akhanda Srinivasamurthy’s house in Kaval Byrasandra on August 11.
