Rajiv muder: Main accused held in Bangkok

New Delhi: A key LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, main accused in the murder of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been arrested in Bangkok.

CBI has asked for immediate extradition of Kumaran Pathmanathan. KP, as he is often called, is the man behind the international weapons network of the LTTE and was operating from Bangkok as the outfit"s financier. He was detained a few hours ago and is being interrogated by the Thai police.

The three militants and Padmanathan were suspected to be involved in a LTTE gun-running network based in Thailand. Pathmanathan is reportedly a good friend of LTTE supremo Prabhakaran and had allegedly procured the explosives belt used to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi.

According to a Sri Lankan newspaper, the country may decide to extradite him but only after interrogating him.

He also had a number of aliases and has recently been the subject of a manhunt that stretched to Johannesburg, Rangoon, Singapore and Bangkok.

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