TORONTO

A suspected killer who has been sought for six years was finally tracked down in Malaysia and brought back to the city to face the music.

Toronto Police named a suspect in the murder of Nanthi Eashan Dharmaratnam almost immediately after he was allegedly deliberately run down by a car in a Scarborough parking lot on March 13, 2010.

But the 25-year-old’s killing remained unsolved until cold case homicide investigators found Seran Kasilingam, aka Kutty Shawn, halfway around the world over the summer.

Kasilingam was located in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 26 and “arrangements were made to return him to Toronto,” Det.-Sgt. Stacy Gallant said Friday, explaining an RCMP liaison in Malaysia and the Canadian Border Services Agency helped with the 28-year-old murder suspect’s extradition.

Officers met the accused at Pearson International Airport on Thursday and he was “arrested without incident,” Gallant said.

When Dharmaratnam was killed, investigators said he and two friends were in the parking lot of the Terraview Adult Learning Centre on Pharmacy Ave., just south of Hwy. 401, to meet another man who was allegedly driving a blue 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

There was “an altercation,” the driver of the Monte Carlo “deliberately” ran down the victim and then drove off, police alleged at the time.

It was initially thought to be a hit-and-run, but detectives quickly concluded Dharmaratnam was murdered.

The suspect vehicle was found days later and Kasilingam has been wanted on a Canada-wide warrant since then.

The accused now faces a second-degree murder charge and remains in custody.

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