Hazaribag police on Wednesday night arrested two youths near the bus stand and recovered one pistol and live cartridges from them.
The officer in Charge of Sadar police Ganesh Kumar Singh said that when they were doing night patrolling near the old bus stand, two youths were stationed there in a doubtful way. As the police patrolling jeep reached the bus stand both youths were trying to run away from there.
The patrolling team chased them and caught them near the post office chowk. The arrested youths confessed to the police that they were planning to loot passengers.
Singh further said that the police are still interrogating the arrested youth. On the information which was gathered from the youths the Sadar police will raid suspected places to control crime in the district.
The arrested youths were identified as Neetu Kumar Verma of Okni Muhalla of town and Roshan Lal of Noora in Sadar police station area. Both the arrested persons have been sent to jail by police after producing them in the court.