Dharamshala, March 25 -- Shimla police on Tuesday said that they have arrested the prime accused in the alleged attack on Aryan Chauhan, the general secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress and son of Naresh Chauhan, the media adviser to chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.

The incident took place on Friday evening near Mashobra when Aryan was headed to Shimla. The police subsequently registered a case and started the investigation.

According to police, the complainant alleged that three suspects intercepted him on Tarapur road and perpetrated an incident involving extortion and robbery against him. "During the probe, the prime conspirator-Manish Verma, alias Manu, of Theog in Shimla district and currently residing at Chakdeha...