Meerut, Sept. 10 -- One of the key suspects in the brutal murder of history-sheeter Kamal Chauhan was arrested following a police encounter in the Katghar area of Moradabad on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Identified as Sunny Diwakar, who is also a known history sheeter, he was injured in one of his legs in the exchange of fire.

Chauhan, the district president of the Hindu Samaj Party and a known history-sheeter with eight cases pending against him at the Katghar police station, was shot dead near Karbala Maidan in Katghar on Sunday evening. He was returning home with his friend Vishal Sharma on a scooter when armed attackers opened fire on them.

The attackers, led by history-sheeter Diwakar and his associates, shot Kamal in the templ...