LUCKNOW, April 11 -- : Thirty-three days after the murder of a Sitapur-based journalist on March 8, a priest and two of his accomplices were arrested for the crime on Thursday, the police said. Through these accomplices, the priest had hired two professional killers to execute the crime, the police further said, adding that the killers are still at large.

Homosexual relations and other illegal activities of the priest and the fear that he (the priest) would be exposed led to the murder of Hindi daily journalist Raghvendra Bajpai, 36, in Sitapur's Maholi area, Sitapur superintendent of police (SP) Chakresh Mishra confirmed in a press conference in Sitapur on Thursday.

Two motorcycle-borne assailants had pumped four bullets into Bajpai af...