Four robbers held, bike, three mobiles, pistol seized

Ranchi: Police have arrested four criminals while they were planning to commit a robbery under the Pithoria police station area on Tuesday evening.Police seized a country-made pistol, double barrel gun, a cartridge, a bike and three mobile phones from the criminals.The arrested persons are Sooraj Kumar Ram, Gunjan Kumar Singh, Krishna Kumar Tanti and Sumit Kumar Singh. Rural SP Naushad Alam on Wednesday said that a police team led by ASP Mumal Rajpurohit raided a place in Rudraprayag following a tip off adding four miscreants were arrested while one managed to escape. The SP said that the accused persons have admitted their involvement in loot incidents, which took place in a petrol pump and a gas agency in the past.