Palamu Police nabbed three veteran criminals, informed officer-in-charge of the Sadar police station Harish Kumar Pathak. According to police sources, the criminals are identified as Raju Tirkey, Gobind Singh alias Chhotu and Sushil Oraon. Ram Tirkey has more than a dozen cases pending against him while Gobind and Sushil have about half a dozen cases. Tirkey and his men used to grab land at gun point. The police also recovered a pistol from the possession. Tirkey runs his crime empire and there is none to challenge him.