India, June 27 -- The district police have arrested a third accused, identified as Sandeep Singh, 23, in connection with the June 22 petrol bomb attack on a clinic run by a homoeopathic practitioner couple.

Superintendent of police (investigation) Heena Gupta said on Saturday that Sandeep, a third-year BA student at a private college in Malout in Muktsar district with no prior criminal record, was apprehended on the Bathinda Ring Road on Friday.

The SP said that Sandeep, a resident of Khuian Sarwar village in Fazilka, recruited the two previously arrested suspects, Nakul Kumar and Gurwinder Singh, paying them Rs.500 each to execute the attack. Nakul and Gurwinder are also natives of the same village.

During interrogation, Sandeep told ...