A bodyguard of convicted gangster Sujit Sinha’s wife was arrested with eight pistols and cartridges from Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said.

Sinha is at present serving a jail term in Ranchi in connection with a murder case.

SP Reeshma Ramesan said the bodyguard, Manish Kumar Ram alias Mayank Verma, 28, was apprehended from a place under the Rehala police station area of the district following a tip-off.

She said the bodyguard had a criminal antecedent and cases against him were pending in Kankengadi and Sukhdevnagar police stations of Ranchi. He was released on bail in February after 18 months of judicial custody, she said.

The SP said the bodyguard was nabbed from a bus on the way to Medininagar.

She said the accused told police that he was going to deliver the firearms and ammunition to the gangster’s wife Riya Sinha.

PTI