According to the District Police Office (DPO), five persons were nabbed while they were asking Dhirendra Yadav of Manpur- 3 for money at gunpoint. They are Surendra Mahato (19) of Manpur-3, Sunil Kumar Yadav (20) of Shreepur-1, Madhukant Chaudhary (18) of Shreepur-7, Surendra Yadav (19) of Shreepur-4 and Pankaj Kumar Das (18) of Barhathawa-5. A patrol team from the office nabbed them from Harkatawa. One home-made pistol and four rounds of bullet were seized from them.
Similarly, police arrested Nabin Kumar Paswan, Ramji Yadav and Sunil Yadav of Hajariya- 9 and Ram Prabesh Yadav of Sundarpur on the charge of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy and demanding ransom to the family for his release. According to Inspector Lal Babu Yadav, they were caught in possession of two home-made pistols and four rounds of bullet.
However, the police freed the abducted child from Chuhadawa, as he was kept inside a house. It is said security in the district has been tightened following the rising criminal activities for the past few days.
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