The Kolkata Police Department has also formed an investigation committee led by a Deputy Police Commissioner and is mulling strict action against the officer who was present at the spot of the Friday incident but allegedly did not come forward to rescue the victim.
According to police, the arrest was made on Wednesday night in the neighbouring district of Kanpur Dehat.
The police identified the three as Khilafat Ali (56), Furkan (49), both hailing from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, and Khalid (28), a resident of UP's Hapur. Nineteen semi-automatic pistols of .32 bore and two revolvers with 15 spare magazines were recovered from the accused.
An 18-year-old nephew of slain gangster Praveen Gahlot and one of his associate were arrested by Delhi police on Tuesday after they allegedly pointed a gun at a petrol station employee and attempted to loot the fuel station. The incident was reported on Monday in Sector-4 of Dwarka.
The NIA has arrested Habibur Rehman Sheikh, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, from the Dodabalpur area of the Karnataka capital.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered cases against both the accused under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and further investigation is underway, the officer added.
Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya Wednesday assaulted a municipal officer with a cricket bat when a team of the civic body went to the city's Ganji area to raze a dilapidated building.
The accused duo, Preeti Sehrawat and Manoj Bhat (39), were nabbed from Gurugaon, police said.
Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, printer/publisher of the 'Afaq' newspaper, was arrested on Monday night from his house in Srinagar.
"Two cops, one Sub Inspector and one Assistant Sub Inspector, have been suspended for dereliction of duty. Five people have been arrested so far," said a Deputy Superintendent of Police to IANS over the phone, asking not to be named.
On June 22, a video went viral on the social media in which some persons were seen firing in the air near Shyam Lal College in Shahdara area. A case was then registered with the police.
The incident came to light in the beginning of the month when a purported video went viral showing the MLA asking the PWD engineer to do sit-ups in public.
Lakshminarayanan began his career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Madurai and then rose to become the Joint Director of Central Bureau of Investigation.
"All the accused are aged between 36 and 53. They were trying to smuggle the gold to Chennai and now have been arrested.
The accused even managed to get two police constables to accompany him during the raid conducted at the house of the trader, identified as Adesh Goel, they said.
Three arms smugglers were arrested in Tripura and Japanese pistols, a huge number of bullets and six sets of mobile phones were recovered from them, police said in Agartala on Friday.
As per reports 9 men were involved in the incident which took place on the night of June 18.
Security forces have arrested five overground workers of proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said on Wednesday.
According to a senior police officer, they received a complaint on Friday wherein it was alleged that two foreigners came to Patanjali Mega Store in Taimur Nagar here and asked for 450 kg ghee worth Rs 2.25 lakh.
A police party conducted raids following which four drug peddlers, identified as Shakeel Ahmed, Shafaat Ali, Musharraf Parvaiz and Waseem sakinder, who were involved in drug trafficking business, were kept under preventive detention, they said, adding that all the accused belong to Mendhar.
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