Kerameri police in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district arrested Pendore Mohan Rao, one of the two prime accused in the Jodeghat statue burning case, who was a member of the Kumram Bheem martyrdom anniversary organising committee.
The other accused, former Boath MLA Soyam Bapu Rao, also a Raj Gond Adivasi, is absconding.
According to police, the duo along with 20 of their supporters had broken a glass case and took out the statue of a traditionally dressed Lambada woman from the tribal museum at Jodeghat on the intervening night of October 5 and 6.
All the accused have been booked under sections 448, 452, 427, 435, 506 and 153 A read with 34 IPC and section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.