Lucknow, July 25 - Sub-inspector Hoshiar Singh, one of the 11 suspects in PWD engineer Manoj Gupta's murder, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district Saturday after absconding for seven months, police said. Gupta had reportedly been killed as he refused to raise money for Chief Minister's Mayawati's birthday party.

'Of the 11 accused in the murder case, Singh was the only one who was absconding. He was arrested from Auraiya this (Saturday) morning,' Additional Superintendent of Police Rajendra Kumar told IANS on phone. Auraiya is about 250 km from state capital Lucknow.

Kumar said further action against Singh, who has already been dismissed from his job, would be taken on the directives of a local court in Auraiya where he would be produced.

Even as police said Singh was nabbed, there were reports that the sub-inspector surrendered at the Kotwali police station.

On this, Kumar said: 'There could be a possibility that Singh had made up his mind to surrender and was coming to the police station. However, we nabbed Singh midway, before he could surrender.'

Now all the 11 accused, including the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari, have been arrested.