Ranchi Police have arrested two persons on late Friday evening near Bharat Mata Chowk at Harmu Road while they were planning something notorious. Kotwali Dy. SP Bahaman Tuti said today that a loaded home-made pistol with one live bullet has been recovered from one and a large-sized dagger from the other, while one other person managed to escape from there. The police have booked all three under Arms Act.
“After reaching at Bharat Mata Chowk at around 10 pm on Friday, the patrolling party of Kotwali Police Station found a gang of thee with a scooty, planning something suspicious. When asked what they were doing there, all three started fleeing. Two of them were chased and caught soon after, but the third managed to escape. Raids are being conducted at his possible hideouts. All in their mid-20s are from Chhapra (Bihar),” said Tuti.
He said that the information dug out so far from the Yashwant Kumar Singh, S/o late Ramnaresh Singh and Sujeet Kumar Singh, S/o Bhagat Singh have not been fruitful to understand what they were actually planning. Pistol has been recovered from the possession of Sujeet, while Yashwant was carrying the dragger. “Both have named Ranjan Kumar Singh as mastermind of what was to be executed, who is absconding,” said Tuti.