Katihar (Bihar): BJP MLC Ashok Kumar Agrawal charged with the killing of an employee of a petrol pump owned by him at Mirchaibari in the town, has been arrested.
A police team took him to the police station from his residence on Sunday night and formally arrested him, official sources said.
He was produced on Monday in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate RN Tripathy who remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days.
An FIR had been lodged against Agarwal under section 302 of IPC by Neeraj a reporter of a Hindi daily and brother of the deceased, Dheeraj Mahato.
Agrawal has claimed that Dheeraj was killed on July 17 when the carbine of his bodyguard accidentally went off.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest)
Bandh called by BJP in Bihar an eyewash, says JD(U)
Watch: Many temples submerged in Rishikesh
Life and times of Nitish Kumar
Mumbai: Teenager mows down 3-year-old, arrested
Live: BJP says bandh has been a success, calls it an end of Nitish era
Uttarakhand floods, landslides leave 40 dead; over 60,000 stranded
Delhi: Yamuna crosses danger mark, evacuation begins
SRK in trouble over 'sex determination' of surrogate child
