The district police have arrested two men in a loot case reported on Tuesday night. Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Arun Mohan Joshi said that as the residents of Kimadi village were aware and gave timely information to the control room, police were able to work-out the case easily and the accused were arrested in the initial hours of investigation. Police have also recovered Rs 2,110 and the weapon used at crime scene from them.

The accused have been identified as Hariom Mishra and Ved Prakash Trivedi. Both are natives of Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh.

According to the information provided by local police, at 10 pm on Tuesday, they received information that few people are looting a shop at Kimadi Road, and that when villagers tried to stop them, they had fired shots.

Under the supervision of Superintendent of Police (city) Shweta Choubey and Circle Officer (Mussoorie) Arvind Singh Rawat, police teams started combing the area from all sides and caught the culprits.

During interrogation, the accused said that both work as security guards.

Accused Hariom Mishra had been working at Indian Overseas Bank premises at Rajpur for the last six-seven years and Ved Prakash used to work in Golden Manor Company.

The used to reconnoiter the target areas separately. First, Hariom used to go to the place where they were planning to carry out the crime and then used to call Ved Praksh who used to carry the gun.

In Kimadi village also, they were planning to do the same, but when the crowd started closing in on them, they panicked and fired a gunshot before escaping from the scene.