Honduras' Supreme Court has issued an order to arrest Rodolfo Padilla Sunsery, mayor of the country's second largest city of San Pedro Sula, while dismissing him from the post, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

An arrest order was made allegedly for the mayor's involvement in forging documents and embezzling public money, the Interior Ministry Spokesman Elvin Guzman said.

The order has been sent to the military, Guzman added.

Padilla Sunsery was one of the staunchest supporters of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya.

On Tuesday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in San Pedro Sula, some 250 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa, condemning the interim president Roberto Micheletti for cheating the public and urging to reinstate Zelaya.

Early Sunday, Zelaya was snatched from his bed in the Presidential Palace by hooded and heavily armed troops and forced to board a plane bound for Costa Rica.

Later on Sunday, Honduras' Congress appointed Micheletti as the interim president in a session that began with the reading of a resignation letter, purportedly from Zelaya who has denied signing it.

Source: Xinhua