Varanasi: A few hours after looting RS 50,000 in cash from a man, two looters were arrested after suffering a bullet injury in a fire reward with police Chandawak and Jalalpur police station near the culvert in Murkha Regency on Wednesday.
SP Jaunpur Ajayi said that two looters – pradeep and vimless from the area were arrested after suffering a bullet injury while their hands, who had been identified as kuldeep, managed to escape.
A police officer Jaiprakash Yadav also suffered minor injuries.
They have all been in a hurry to the district hospital.
The police recovered one gun, one country made revolver, live cartridges, motorbikes and cellphones from them, he added, the captured looters had robbed RS 50,000 in cash from Rajkumar Ram in the morning.
Sahani said that several police teams had been engaged to catch the earliest loot.
The police managed to trace the looters when they gathered near the culverts in the Murkha Canal to divide their part in the money looted.
However, at seeing them surrounded by police criminals fired a shot on the police team in an effort to escape, said Sahani added, the police thwarted their offer by replying in the same style, even though the third loot managed to escape by jumping into the canal.
UP LOOT: 2 is held after suffering injury
