Ghouse Nayazi, who was on the run since 2016, was arrested by a special team soon after he arrived from Dar-e-Salaam in Tanzania.
Published Mar 03, 2024 | 11:41 AM ⚊ Updated Mar 03, 2024 | 1:11 PM
Ghouse Nayazi (NIA)
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a member of the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from Mumbai airport on his return from abroad, an official said on Saturday, 2 March.
He was allegedly the key conspirator in an eight-year-old murder case of RSS leader R Rudresh of Karnataka.
Ghouse Nayazi, who was on the run since 2016, was arrested by a special team of NIA at the Mumbai International Airport on Friday soon after he arrived from Dar-e-Salaam in Tanzania, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
Rudresh, a prominent RSS leader of the Shivajinagar area of Bengaluru, was hacked to death by four members of the PFI in Karnataka on 16 October, 2016.
The spokesperson said investigations into the case had revealed that the murder was part of a larger conspiracy hatched by Nayazi, president of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Hebbal Assembly constituency, and one Asim Sheriff.
“The duo had persuaded the other four accused to kill Rudresh with an intention to strike terror among the members of the RSS and the society. The killers were made to believe that the fight against the RSS was a holy war,” the official said.
With the arrest of Nayazi, all the accused in the case have been arrested. The trial against the other accused is going on in the NIA Special Court, Bengaluru.
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