After remaining on the run for over three months, the Maharashtra Police has arrested a senior journalist, editor and author Dr. Balasaheb J. Bothe-Patil, the alleged key conspirator in the brutal killing of a Nationalist Congress Party leader Rekha Jare on November 30 last year, officials said here on Saturday.

Bothe was tracked to and nabbed at his hideout in Hyderabad, Ahmednagar Superintendent of Police Manoj Patil, who personally supervised the case, told the media.