"The motive was that in 2003, when in a case of a friend, Venkatesh had helped the police to arrest all the accused who were involved in this... So we will be arresting all the accused at the earliest, and procedures will be done," SP Ram L Arasiddi said.
A local BJP Yuva Morcha President, Venkatesh Kurubara, was brutally murdered on Wednesday in the Gangavathi town of the Koppal District in Karnataka, police said on Wednesday.
Days before the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, a local BJP leader, Ratan Dubey, was murdered on Saturday by two unidentified Naxals in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district, officials said.