CHENNAI: In a breakthrough in the decades-old Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case, Tamil Nadu police have arrested 'Tailor' Raja, one of the prime accused who had been absconding for 27 years.
He was picked up from Vijayapura district in Karnataka on Wednesday by a joint team of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Coimbatore City Police.
Raja, 50, was brought to Coimbatore under tight security and produced before the Fifth Judicial Magistrate Court on Thursday.
The court remanded him in judicial custody till July 24.