The Palamu police on Sunday cracked the mystery behind murder of a petty contractor Ramashish Ravi and recovered arms allegedly used for killing the contractor. The Palamu police recovered one carbine, one rifle and 20 bullets from the house of another contractor Vinay Chauhan in Rudidih village under Patan PS in Palamu.
Chauhan has been arrested and sent to jail, informed Palamu SP Y S Ramesh. Significantly, police investigating the case received a tipoff that three criminals allegedly involved in the murder were hiding at Madanpur in Aurangabad district of Bihar. Following the tipoff a team was constituted in the leadership of DSP Palamu Mukesh Kumar Mahato that nabbed the three culprits-Sreedhar Prasad alias Nepali, Pramod Yadav and Sarwan Prajapati.
According to Palamu police the accused confessed their involvement in the murder and based on their statement a cache of arms were recovered from Chauhan’s house. Police suspect that the rifle was used for killing however they awaiting a ballistic report to confirm use of rifle.