NEW DELHI, April 24: Three senior Indian police officers were arrested in Gujarat state on Tuesday on charges of murdering a Muslim man falsely accused of plotting to kill the state's chief minister.

The arrests came after Gujarat’s government admitted Sohrabuddin Sheikh was killed in a staged gun battle in 2005.

“DIG D. G. Vanzara and Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Pandian have been arrested on charges of murder,” Sudhir Sinha, a senior state police officer, told the Press Trust of India.—AFP