3 miscreants injured in police encounter in Muzaffarpur, weapons recovered

Muzaffarpur (IANS) | Three miscreants were injured after being shot in an encounter between the miscreants and the police who had come to execute a major incident on Wednesday in Siwaipatti police station area of Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. All the injured have been taken into custody by the police and sent to the hospital for treatment. Many weapons and cash have also been recovered from them.

A police official said that the police had received a tip-off that a gang of robbers had reached Muzaffarpur to carry out some major incident.

On the basis of this information, the police team was going to raid that the miscreants started firing on the police in Sagahri area. The police also took charge and retaliated.

During this, three miscreants were shot, due to which they were injured. The injured have been identified as Kaushal Das, Santosh Sahni alias Wagon and Rashid alias David Hathaudi. All are said to be residents of Muzaffarpur.

Muzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rakesh Kumar said that three criminals had bullet injuries. A carbine, two pistols and about nine lakh rupees in cash have been recovered from the spot.

He told that all the three criminals have been sent to the Medical College Hospital for treatment. The criminal history of all three is being probed. All three are said to be members of an inter-state robbery gang. At present, the police is investigating the entire matter.

–IANS