Three including an engineering student arrested while planning to commit dacoity

Three persons including an engineering student were arrested on Saturday while planning to commit dacoity, a senior police officer said.

Acting on a tipoff that some criminals were planning a dacoity in the house of a transporter in Kadma police station area, a special police team made a raid and arrested the three from behind the Gosia Masjid under Azadnagar police station, Senior Superintendent of Police, Amol V Homkar said.

The three arrested were Md Arif Rahman alias STF, Sarfraz Alam alias Babu, who residents of adjoining Seraikela-Kharswan district and Faraz Khan, a resident of Zakirnagar under Azadnagar police station in Jamshedpur, he said. Police recovered a country-made pistol, two live cartridges and a knife from their possession.

Two others Arman Bacha and Vijay Tirkey escaped. Deputy Superintendent of Police, Amit Kumar, who was present at the press conference, said Faraz was doing an engineering course in Computer Science from Ranchi and recently he had cleared his third semester examination.