Chhattisgarh Police arrested two more persons including a shooter who was on the run for the contract killing of local BJP leader Asim Rai at Pakhanjur town in Kanker district.
Shooter Vikas Talukdar and Sonu Sahu, who allegedly supplied the gun, have been taken into custody, Kanker Superintendent of Police Divyang Patel said.
Talukdar was nabbed from Maharashtra and Sahu from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh.
A 7.65 MM pistol, two magazines and eight rounds were recovered from Talukdar. Two pistols, two magazines and 30 rounds of cartridges were seized from Sahu.
Rai (50), a former chairman of the Pakhanjur Nagar Panchayat, was the corporator and also vice president of the Kanker district unit of the BJP.
He was killed in the Purana Bazar area last Sunday.
On Friday, 11 persons including two local Congress leaders were arrested for Rai's killing.