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This is an archive article published on January 17, 2009

Satyam techie’s murder in US: 20-yr-old suspect held

A 20-year-old man “strongly suspected” to have killed an Indian techie...

A 20-year-old man “strongly suspected” to have killed an Indian techie,working with the the scam-hit Satyam Computer,was arrested by the police in the Arkansas state of the US.

The Little Rock Police is interrogating the suspect in connection with the killing of Andhra Pradesh engineer Akshay Vishal,who was shot dead on Tuesday,in the seventh case of young students and professionals from the state being killed in the last 14 months.

The and other details of the arrested suspected assailant have not been released yet by the police,however,the local media identified the arrested person as 20-year-old Brandon Johnson.

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“We have been interviewing him (arrested person suspected of carrying out the murder) all day today,” an official of Little Rock City Police Department told PTI on condition of anonymity,as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

“He is a strong suspect (of the murder),” the official said,adding three search warrants had also been issued in the past two days.

“The person,who we believe did it (the murder),is right here (arrested),but we are not releasing the details as investigation is still going on. We can’t release any more detail at this point of time,” the official said.

The police said more than a dozen people had been interrogated so far as part of the investigation.

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