Three more persons were arrested in connection with the suspected honour killing case of a 25-year-old man in Beed district of Maharashtra, police said Tuesday. Among them, Balaji Landge and Sanket Wagh, key accused in the case, were nabbed Monday from Amravati district of the state, while the third accused, Gajanan Kshirsagar (30), was nabbed Tuesday from the city, a senior police official said. With this, the number of the accused arrested in the case has gone up to four. Gajanan Kshirsagar's brother Krishna Kshirsagar, a college student, was earlier apprehended in the case.

The victim, Sumit Shivajirao Waghmare, a third year student at the Aditya Engineering College here, was stabbed to death by two men outside the educational institute on December 19, police had earlier said. He had married a fellow student, Bhagyashree Landge, two months ago against the wishes of her family, according to the police.