Jhansi: Police on Thursday arrested three members of an interstate gang allegedly involved in looting a man a few days ago, while two others are still at large. Two country-made pistols and some cash has been recovered from the accused.
The arrested accused have been identified as Kallu Yadav, Neeraj Yadav of Datiya, MP and Vishal Yadav of Babina while Ashok Kushwaha and Prabhu Kushwaha, also from Datiya, are still absconding.
As per the details given by SSP Jhansi, Dinesh Kumar P, the accused had looted Sanjive Lodhi, an employee of a micro finance company for Rs 77,800 on February 4 while the victim was returning to office after collecting loan amount. A case was registered against unknown persons under section 392, 506 IPC and police started investigations.
“Working on a tip-off, on Thursday the police arrested the three accused near a flyover in Raksa area and recovered two country-made pistols along with live cartages apart from Rs 30,000 from them. All the three have number of pending cases against them,” he added.