A 35-year-old man, accused of assaulting a lodge owner and manager and looting Rs 9,000 last Saturday, was arrested at Mango market in Jamshedpur on Thursday morning.

Hussain Ali, a resident of Old Purulia Road at Zakirnagar in Azadnagar, was produced at a judicial magistrate court, which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days.

Ali, who had done several rounds of prison in various cases of murder, extortion and loot in the last 10 years, was once again forwarded to Ghaghidih Central Jail in the afternoon.

Mango police said owner of Gulf Rest House Sabir Sheikh had lodged an FIR against Ali, popularly known as Pilpil Pappu, and three of his associates including one Md Bunty on Saturday.

Following the complaint, police started raiding their houses. Police were, however, successful on Thursday, when Ali visited a mobile shop from where he was nabbed by a team led by SI Rash Behari Das.

Deputy superintendent of police (headquarters-I) K.N. Mishra said they were on the lookout for Ali's three associates.

According to police, Ali had gone to the rest house opposite Gandhi Maidan in Mango on Saturday night and asked for a room. The manager denied him one as he was a local resident. When Ali insisted, he asked him to furnish his Voter's I-Cardover phone before leaving the place.

Ali was active in Mango for the past 10 years. A number of criminal cases, including murder, loot, highway robbery, extortion and those under Arms Act, are lodged against him in Mango and Azadnagar police stations.

A shopkeeper at Jawaharnagar in Mango, appreciating the police, told The Telegraph that Ali was a terror in the locality. "He not only harassed shopkeepers, but also targeted commoners on the street," he said.