Main accused in UP's Badaun gang-rape, murder case arrested

A priest was quizzed throughout the night for his alleged role in the gangrape of an Anganwadi worker in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district after his arrest in the early hours of Friday, police said. "Mahant" Satya Narayan, the main accused in the case, was hiding in a forest area near the house of one of his followers in Mewali village under the Ughaiti police station, from where he was picked up in a late-night crackdown, they said, adding that he was on the run for five days. The priest, who is in his 50s, was immediately arrested and interrogated by a police team. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sankalp Sharma said the sub-inspector in-charge of the area, Amarjit Singh, was suspended on Friday.