Kutch east police have arrested a casual labourer from Bihar for his role in alleged murder of garment trader of Gandhidham town in Kutch early this month but Haryana gangster Afroz Ansari, who police say, is the key conspirator and two men who shot dead the trader are still at large.

In an operation, a party of Gandhidham B Division police picked up Irshad Ansari from Banka in Bihar on August 26. He was brought to Gandhidham and formally arrested the following day. A local court in Gandhidham has sent the Bihar man to police custody till August 30.