Ranchi: Police on Saturday arrested five of six persons involved in the looting of Rs 1 crore from a trader and his associates at gunpoint on April 12 and recovered Rs 73.59 lakh of the looted amount from them.
The arrested persons are identified as Manoj Bhagat, Anmol Singhania, Nazmi Hasan, Wasim Ahmad and Zashim Ahmad. A car and a motorcycle used in the crime along with mobile phones were also seized from the arrested persons.
The loot took place on April 12 when the five criminals accosted trader Subham Agrawal along with three others, including his partner Nikesh Mishra, was about to leave for Odisha from his rented house in Obaria road under Jagannathpur police station.