Koderma, February 13 A man from Bihar was arrested with arms and ammunition in Koderma district of Jharkhand, police said on Friday.
The accused has been identified as Rameshwar Prasad alias Rakesh Saw (54), a resident of Jehanabad district in Bihar, they said.
"The accused was arrested on Thursday based on information that a suspicious person had been living in a primary government school in Gajhad Tola in Kataiya village for the past two days," SP Anudeep Singh said.
"A total of four single-shot, locally made rifles and five live cartridges were recovered from him," he said.
During interrogation, Prasad told the police that he lived with his family in a rented house in Ramgarh and worked as a labourer.
"He said that his expenses increased after he got married, and he could not meet them by working as a labourer. In the meantime, he came into contact with a person named Kaushal from Jaytipur Nimda in Nalanda district of Bihar, and started buying and selling new and old weapons," the SP told reporters.
After coming here, he started living in the government school building, as no one in the village allowed him to stay in their house, he said.
A case has been registered at the Satgawan police station under the Arms Act, he added.
