Thiruvananthapuram: East Kollam police have arrested one more person in connection with cases related to attacks on police vehicles in Polayathode during the New Year celebration.
The police identified the defendant as Noufal, 19, from National Nagar, Polyke.
Police on Saturday captured three others in connection with this case.
They are Rajendran, Kishore and Ashraf, all the population of National Nagar.
The police said that it was when trying to capture noufal on charges of public interference, the attack occurred.
They caught noufal.
Then, the key accuses Rajendran, blocking the road and destroying the windshield of vehicles using stones.
This caused a struggle between police officials and criminals gathered there.
In riot, Noufal managed to escape from a police vehicle.
He was arrested by a team led by Sub Inspector Kollam Timur Ratheesh Kumar on Sunday from his hiding place in Chinnakkada.