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Chennai, July 20 (Reporter) Further widening the probe, the CB-CID police have arrested a Councillor of the Opposition AIADMK in connection with the murder of BSP Tamil Nadu Unit President K.Armstrong
on Saturday evening following which he was expelled from the party immediately.
The arrested AIADMK man was identified as Haridharan, who is the Kadambathur panchayat third ward Councillor in Tiruvallur West district.
He was arrested on charges of having the mobile phone of one of the accused Arul, on whose
account the arrested and already expelled AIADMK functionary Malarkodi has transferred a large amount of money in connection with the murder.
Haridharan was said to have thrown the mobile phone in the cooum river in Thiruvallur and police
after prolonged search operations located it along with four more phones, which were said to
have been used in the murder.
With this a total of 16 suspects were arrested in the case.
They included advocates and functionaries of the ruling DMK, main Opposition AIADMK, BJP and
TMC, police sources said.
Sources said so far 16 were arrested and Selvaraj, one of the accused, was not arrested
on Thursday, but was one of those among 11 held earlier after Armstrong's murder.
Soon after his arrest, Haridharan was expelled from the AIADMK.
A statement issued by AIADMK General Secretary and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi
K.Palaniswami late this evening said, since Haridharan has acted in a manner that brought
disrepute to the party and violated party discipline and rules, he was expelled from the primary
membership of the party.
He was the second AIADMK functionary to be arrested after Advocate Malarkodi, also an
history-sheeter yesterday.
Police are scrutinising her bank accounts to ascertain the amount of money that has been
transacted in the murder.
The police have arrested 11 people immediately after the murder and three more were arrested
yesterday.They were woman AIADMK functionary and advocate Malarkodi Sekar, who was
immedately sacked from the party, Hariharan of TMC and Satish, who was the son of a DMK
functionary.
TMC President and former Union Minister GK Vasan had expelled Hariharan from the party
following his arrest.
Yesterday police arrested woman expelled BJP Mahila Morcha functionary in North Chennai
Anjalai.
She was arrested by Special teams were formed to trace her, who was close to
history- sheeter‘Arcot’ Suresh, whose murder last year in the city, was stated to be
the main reason for the killing of Armstrong, police said.
The arrest of Haridharan has taken the total arrests to 16 so far and police sources said
a list of rowdies and history-sheeters have been taken to ascertain whether they had any
links in the case...////...