Ahmedabad: One person was arrested in connection with the Sabarmati Express train carnage in February 2002, from Godhra town on Monday.
The accused, identified as Shaukat, is alleged to be one of the core group members who had set ablaze the S-6 coach of the train on February 27, 2002, police said.
Police have so far arrested more than 100 persons, mostly Muslims of Ghanchi community of Godhra town, while 19 more are absconding.
Shaukat, who had been absconding since the carnage, was nabbed from the town after police got a tip-off about his whereabouts.
The special investigation team of Gujarat police has also claimed to have arrested the main conspirator of the train carnage, a Godhra-based cleric named Maulana Hussain Umarji.
The team is still on the hunt for two of the members of the core group, Salim Panwala and Farouk Bhana.
Fifty nine passengers, mostly karsevaks, returning from Ayodhya, were killed on board the S-6 coach after it was allegedly pelted with stones and torched just outside the Godhra railway station in Panchmahals district.
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