Dehri-on-Sone, February 27:Police today arrested two suspected naxalites and seized 18 fire arms and five magazines near a hotel under Sasaram town police station area in Bihar’s Rohtas district, a police official said.
Acting on a tip off, the police raided a hide out and nabbed the suspected naxalites duo, identified as Om Prakash Dinara and Mukul Kumar Baghela and seized from them 15 country-made pistols, two revolvers and five magazines, the Superintendent of Police (SP) Manu Maharaj said.
He said that the duo have confessed to their association with naxalite outfits in the past.
An investigation was going to ascertain the background of the suspected naxalites, Maharaj said, adding the duo were sent to jail.
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