Praveen Mutalik, an absconding accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, has been arrested from Karnataka by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad. Mutalik, one of the three accused still evading arrest in the case, was picked up on Monday night. He was produced before a special MCOCA court in Mumbai which remanded him in police custody till February 14. Police sources said two others – Ramji Kalangsara and Sandeep Dange – are still absconding. With this, the number of arrests in the case has gone up to 12. Earlier, Anti-Terrorism Squad had arrested 11 persons including key accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit. Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on September 29, 2008, in communally sensitive textile town Malegaon in Nashik district of north Maharashtra.