India, Dec. 29 -- The Raigad police on Saturday arrested nine people in connection with the murder of Mangesh Sadashiv Kalokhe alias Appa, 75, who was killed in broad daylight on Friday. The accused were nabbed a day after the murder following an intensive manhunt involving 25 special teams, police said.

"Our investigation shows that Kalokhe was murdered as part of a pre-planned conspiracy," an officer familiar with the case told HT.

According to the police, Kalokhe was killed around 7am on Friday, shortly after he had dropped his daughter to school and was returning home. A group of assailants armed with swords, sickles and an axe allegedly attacked him near the Jaya Bar chowk - they knocked him to the ground and assaulted him repeated...