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Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday sent Chandrakant Jha, arrested on charges of killing at least six persons and dumping four headless bodies outside the high-security Tihar Central Jail here, to two days' police custody in a murder case.

Chandrakant was produced before the court following expiry of his seven-day remand. The police informed the court that they had arrested him again in connection with the murder of a person whose headless body was recovered from outside Gate No. 1 of the jail on May 18. The court then granted them a two-day custody.

Chandrakant was arrested in Adarsh Nagar here on May 20.

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