The district police are taking every step to ensure peaceful and fair elections this time. The city police arrested seven criminals involved in separate cases of crimes, including loot and theft in the Mango and Telco police station areas. During the raids the police seized two pistols and three live cartridges from those arrested.
Two of the criminals identified as Vikas Tiwary and Dharmendra Yadav were arrested in Mango on Monday. The police recovered a 7.65 calibre pistol from the possession of Tiwary.
Superintendent of police (city) Karthik S said that both Tiwary and Yadav were planning to commit some crime, but acting on a tip off, a police party nabbed the two. The police recovered the sophisticated pistol and two live cartridges from the possession of Tiwary.
Karthik said that Tiwary was a criminal and he was wanted in connection of six criminal cases pending with the Mango police station registered between 2008 and 2014. He said Yadav was wanted in connection with a theft case registered with the Mango police station in September 2011.
In another series of arrest, the Telco police arrested five persons by raiding at their houses in Ramadhin Bagan Kharangajhar, and Chhotagovindpur in Govindpur in the night.
A 25-year-old youth Kunal Kumar was arrested with a loaded pistol from Telco area late Monday night. Those arrested were identified as Shivji Singh, a resident of Ramadhin Bagan, Sunil Singh Sardar, Santo Sahu, both residents of Jyotinagar in Kharangajhar and Kulvinder Singh, a resident of Telco Colony.
The officer-in-charge, Telco police station Kamleswar Pandey said that the Kunal was arrested during a surprise checking near Hudco lake under Telco police station.