The Bisra police on Thursday night arrested two PlFI members in connection with the murder of two Jharkhand-based cloth merchants Rajesh Choudhury and Biswanath Choudhury.
The arrested have been identified as Amrit Sahu (24) of Hurda Azad slum under the Bano police station in Jharkhand’s Simdega district and Nabin Ekka (27) of Ganjur village under the Bisra PS in Sundargarh district.
During interrogation, the two confessed that they were involved in the murder of the two merchants committed on June 22 this year, police said.
Earlier during a joint operation on August 18, the Bisra police and 19 CRPF Battalion personnel had arrested one Bhadra Singh (20) of Rungi village under the Manoharpur PS of Jharkhand in this connection. Raids are still continuing to nab other accused persons, police said.
According to sources, the two merchants had come to Bisra and the Nuagaon area for selling clothes but their decomposed bodies were were found buried in the Gainjur jungle on June 25.
Though initially the police were clueless, Bhadra’s arrest helped them to go ahead with the case. Bhadra had said that 13 PlFI members were involved in the murders. The police has launched the hunt for the rest of the accused and are hopeful of nabbing them soon.