Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 1 (IANS) In a major development in the Sabarimala gold theft case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has recorded the arrest of the temple’s former Executive Officer Sudheesh Kumar, the third accused in the case.

Sudheesh Kumar was questioned at the Crime Branch office in Enchakkal, Thiruvananthapuram, from Thursday evening, before his arrest was formally recorded late on Friday.

He was scheduled to be produced before the Ranni court later on Saturday.

The Kerala High Court had, last month, constituted the SIT and gave them six weeks’ time to complete the probe.

As the first step, the SIT registered two separate FIRs and named 10 people as accused.

The first to go behind bars was the first accused – ‘sponsor’ Unnikrishnan Potti, and then it was the turn of f

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