The city Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) on Wednesday arrested Umesh Gangaprasad Gaud, Shitlaprasad alias Gorelal Bhagirath Patel and Ravi Khandu Thakre for offences committed earlier.

The PCB said that while Umesh Gaud and Gorelal Patel were on the run and lived in Azadnagar,Indiranagar and Tadkeshwarnagar areas alternately, Ravi Thakre lived in Kamal Park Society, Kapodara. Gaud and Patel had been arrested last week in a case of armed loot and possessing a country made revolver.

They had committed a number of offences in the Umra police station area and their PASA arrest was recommended to the police commissioner by the Umra PI. Thakre, on the other hand, was a listed vehicle-lifter against whom a number of cases of vehicle theft have been registered.