PATNA: A team of Special Task Force (STF) arrested three criminals with huge cache of arms and ammunition from Rani Diara village under Ekchari police station area in
Bhagalpur district on Tuesday.
STF sources said the arrested criminals were identified as Pappu Mandal, Julmi Mandal and Akhilesh Yadav. One regular rifle, one double barrel, one single barrel gun each, four muskets and one country-made pistol were recovered from their possession.
Over 25 live cartridges of .315 bore used in regular
rifle and country-made pistols and 29 cartridges of .12 bore used in the guns, were also seized from them.
The trio were handed over to police for further investigation process. Ekchari police station SHO Jyotish Kumar said, “The trio had gathered there for a gang-war for establishing supremacy on the diara area. They were hiding in a hut owned by one Dinesh Yadav, who was also their gang leader.”