Tailor Raja, a key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case and multiple communal murder cases, was remanded to judicial custody till July 24, according to an official on Thursday.

The Police were able to arrest the accused after he remained on the run for nearly 29 years. The arrested accused was then identified as Sadiq alias Raja alias Tailor Raja alias Valarntha Raja alias Shahjahan Abdul Majid Makandar alias Shahjahan Shaik.

The accused is a native of Coimbatore and has been absconding for the past 29 years and has never been arrested since 1996, they said.