The accused, Dhanpal Rajvirsingh Jat (27), was brought to the city today after he was arrested in Agra by a team of DCB sleuths, who found success in the case after three earlier attempts to nab the culprit, and remanded to 10-day custody.

According to City Police Commissioner Maniram and DCB PI N V Mudaliar, Sanjay Prempal Vairagi, another accused in the loot-cum-murder case, was already arrested, while the third accused, Ravi Swami alias Dhanraj Pinto Jat, was killed four months ago in a family dispute in Mathura. Dharampal Jat, the fourth accused and Dhanraj's brother, is still at large, they added.

On January 22 night, the four accused strangled to death Chetan Solanki, an employee of the Charan Motors shop at J K Towers, opposite the sub-jail, here and dumped his body in the building's basement.

The next morning, the accused beat up the owner of Charan Motors with an iron rod and before escaping with his vehicle looted Rs 3.75 lakh in cash from the shop. They later abandoned the vehicle, after it crashed into a road divider, walked upto Kadodara Char Rasta and escaped.

The Athwa Lines police, who had earlier registered a case of armed loot, went on to register a case of murder on January 24 after Solanki's decomposing body was recovered.

According to Dhanpal, who was produced before the reporters, while the plan to loot and kill was hatched by Sanjay and Dhanraj -- both of whom worked at Charan Motors -- it was he who had strangled Solanki with his hands, after tying his hands and feet. Dhanpal worked as a security guard near station then.

Though the Athwa police made attempts to crack the case and had even sent teams to Agra and Mathura, their efforts did not meet success. The case was later transferred to the DCB, who managed to arrest Dhanpal on August 15 at his house at room no 26, Railway Colony in Agra.