Aide of Buxar criminal held with arms in Patna

PATNA: Police arrested one Rajesh Srivastava (25) during a vehicle checking drive and recovered three country-made semi-automatic pistols, six magazines and two live cartridges from his possession near Income-Tax roundabout under the Kotwali police station area in the city on Monday night.
ASP (operation) Anil Kumar Singh said the arrested man is a close associate of Buxar’s notorious criminal Sandeep Yadav, who is accused in 20 cases and currently lodged in Bhagalpur central jail.
“Srivastava was travelling in a three-wheeler which was intercepted by the police at the roundabout. The arms and ammunition were recovered from the backpack of Srivastava,” he said, adding the arrested man was immediately taken to Kotwali police station.
“During interrogation, Srivastava told police that he was acting on the directives of Yadav and they had gathered the ammunition to kill someone in Buxar,” the ASP said, adding Srivastava had reached Patna in a train from Munger.