Police Nab Five Members of Inter-State Loot Gang After Encounter

Five members of an inter-state gang involved in loot were arrested following a morning encounter. Three suspects sustained bullet injuries and were hospitalized. Police recovered jewelry, cash, motorcycles, and weapons. The gang was linked to a recent jeweller heist in Gopiganj.

Five members of an inter-state gang allegedly involved in loot were arrested on Wednesday after an encounter in which three of them sustained bullet injuries, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team chased five persons on two motorcycles on Kathauta-Survaya road in the morning, SP Minakshi Katyayan said.

She said that in the exchange of fire, Govinda Patel, Deepak Saroj, and Govinda Gautam sustained injuries in their legs and were arrested. Two others, Umesh Pal and Adarsh Vishwakarma, were also held.

Police recovered more than four kg of jewellery, Rs 10 thousand cash, two motorcycles, and three country-made pistols from them.

The injured miscreants were admitted to the hospital, where their condition was stated to be stable. They are allegedly members of a gang involved in looting a jeweller in the Gopiganj area recently, police said.

(With inputs from agencies.)