By PTI
PALGHAR: Three persons on the run for the last one-and-half years after a shootout in Nalasopara in Palghar district have been arrested, a police official said on Saturday.
On February 14, 2021, shots were fired on Baliram Gupta and Rajkumar Gupta in Moregaon, leaving both of them seriously injured, after which a case was registered at Tulinj police station, Crime Branch Unit III (Virar) Senior Inspector Pramod Badakh said.
“Acting on a tip off, a special action team of the Crime Branch left for Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and accused Rajkumar Kushwaha and Dhiraj Yadav were nabbed after a chase between Jaunpur and Varanasi on Thursday,” he said.
The third accused, identified as Roshan Mandal, was held from Vasai the next day, he said.
