Thane: Suspended NCP councillor Ashish Damle of the Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council, who went into hiding after the attack on an ashram on June 2, was arrested from a hotel in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh today, police said.

Thane DSP Rajesh Pradhan who addressed an impromptu press conference here in the evening said that a local Crime Branch police team nabbed the absconding councillor from a hotel in Tikamgadh district of Madhya Pradesh.