Varanasi: Almost a few hours after looting Rs 50,000 from a man, two looters were arrested after suffering bullet wounds in fire exchanges with Chandawak and Jalalpur police near culverts in Jaunpur District on Wednesday.
SP Jaunpur Ajay Sahani said that two looters – Pradeep and Vimless from the smell – were arrested after suffering a bullet injury while their hands, identified as Kuldeep, managed to escape.
Police Police Jaiprakash Yadav also suffered minor injuries.
They have all been in a hurry to the district hospital.
Police recovered one pistol, one revolver made by the country, live cartridges, motorbikes and cellphones from them, he said added, the captured looters had robbed cash 50,000 of Rajkumar Ram Ghazipur 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, when he saw the police, the 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 looter managed to escape by jumping into the canal.
Two captured with diesel and gasoline filled illegally: police arrested two people in the roadside in the village of Paraspani in the District Sonbhadra area on Wednesday to store diesel, gasoline, and LPG illegally.
The police recovered 880 diesel, 120 lit of gasoline and 12 cylinders of LPG.