Police have arrested eight criminals near Morhabadi ground and seized two pistols, a revolver, seven cartridges and two bikes from them.
City SP Aman Kumar informed on Wednesday that the arrested persons were namely Pramarthi Mishra (27), Babloo Rana (31), Rajesh Prasad (43), Sunil Kacchap (34), Mohit Kumar Verma (21), Narayan Oroan (36), Pravesh Kumar (21) and Kanhaiyya Mandal (42). He added the group had planned to loot employee of a hospital on Wednesday.
According to police the officer-in-charge (OC) of Lalpur police station received information on Tuesday evening that eight to 10 persons were sitting the Birsa Munda football stadium in Morhabadi and were planning to commit crime . The OC along with around one and half dozen policemen rushed to the spot to ascertain the information and take necessary action. No sooner than the police team surrounded the area to inspect the area, the criminals started fleeing away on their bikes.
Eight of them were, however, nabbed after a chase. Police recovered the arms and ammunition during their body search.
The criminals confessed before police that they had plan to loot the employee of Rinchi hospital on Wednesday. According to their information the employee was to deposit around eight lakh rupees in the bank at around 12 noon.
They accused had also studied the movement of traders of the Pandra market. Police said that they would have targeted one of them in the future. They had also planned to commit dacoity under Nagri police station area.