The arrestees, who were absconding after the crime, have been identified as Biswas Shrestha and Biskas Neupane of Butwal Municipality-10, Prabhu Dayal Harijan of Mainihawa-1 and Niru Gurung of Khairapur-9 of Bardiya district.Police have sized two loaded advanced pistols with one round of bullets each, two home-made pistols and two motorbikes from them used in the crime.
They had allegedly robbed Siddhartha Hardware threatening the shop owner with guns at Dhabaha of Butwal Sub-Mertro-10 five days ago.
Police nabbed them acting on a tip-off that Bikash, who was a worker at Butwal-based Kalash Hotel, has been hiding the pistols used in the crime.
Police had recovered the pistols from the kitchen of the hotel.
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