The Goa police have arrested a Kalahandi native, Rupendra Patnaik, for allegedly raping and killing a 28-year-old woman in Goa, whose decomposed body was found in a forest near Porovrim on February 10.
Later, on February 13, the police took into custody a 16-year-old boy who confessed during interrogation that he along with another person raped the woman and then killed her.
The Porvorim police subsequently launched a manhunt and nabbed Patnaik, from his native place Kalahandi district on Monday, reports said.
The two accused have been booked under Sections 302, 376 of the IPC.
Earlier, following arrest of the minor boy, police had released sketches of the other accused and asked all police stations and railway authorities to be on lookout for him.