One more person was arrested Tuesday in connection with the murder of a 29-year-old Manipuri man here, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to four, police said. A fifth man is on the run.
Azad Choudhary, 24, a driver by profession, was arrested from his hideout in Delhi.
Choudhary was apprehended a day after three of his friends - Sanjay Basoya, 24, Shakti Basoya, 21, and Raju, 25 - were arrested on charges of attacking the Manipuri BPO employee Akha Salouni.
Police said all the four arrested belong to Garhi area in south Delhi.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Kumar Tuesday sent Sanjay Basoya, Shakti Basoya and Raju to police custody till July 24.
Police said they were looking for the fifth accused in the case who is absconding.
Salouni was assaulted around 1 a.m. Monday following a spat with the assailants while he was going to a friend's house in Kotla Mubarakpur area in south Delhi to spend the night.
Police later took Salouni to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
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