PFI-linked Ramalingam murder: NIA arrests 5, including 2 fugitives

• NIA arrested five people, including two proclaimed offenders, in the 2019 Ramalingam murder case.
• PMK worker Ramalingam was killed for opposing forced conversions, allegedly by members of the banned PFI.
• Proclaimed offenders Mohamed Burhanudeen and Mohamed Nabil Hasan, on the run for nearly seven years, were apprehended in Vellore.
• Three others (K Mohideen, Mohamed Imran, Thameem Ansari) were arrested for harboring the absconders.
• The NIA took over the case in 2019; one absconder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, remains at large.

Why It Matters: Justice advances in a murder case involving a banned group and communal tensions.