The police on Sunday arrested four criminals who were wanted in connection with a case of loot committed near the Indian Oil Corporation's petrol pump at Mango in Jamshedpur late on the night of January 22.

The looters identified as Mohammed Taufique Khan alias Baccha (22), Naim Khan alias Banti Khan (24) Sheikh Arif and Sheikh Ibadat, both 25-year-old had also inflicted grievous injuries to the victim Rajnish Kumar Jha by stabbing in the head and neck in that eventful night.

A resident of Mango, Jha (40) is a staff at the Pebco Company in Gamharia and had fallen victim to the looters while he was returning home on foot at about 11.15 pm on January 22 night, when the incident took place.

The victim had got down at the Sitaramdera bus terminus from a bus and was returning home on foot. As he was passing through the petrol pump, the four criminals surrounded him and demanded the money and mobile phone. As he resisted the criminals, one of them fished out a knife and attacked him in the head and neck, causing the victim to get seriously injured. Then the criminals had snatched away his smartphone and the wallet which contained just Rs 70 in it.

A police party had later rescued the victim and got him admitted at the MGM Medical College Hospital. Later the police had registered a case against four unidentified criminals on the statement made by the victim on January 24.

Revealing about the breakthrough, deputy superintendent of police (Headquarters-I) Pawan Kumar said they arrested one after another accused in the case on getting a tip-off on Sunday.

"Acting on a tip-off, we first picked up Banti Khan from his rented house in Munshi Mohalla. On being interrogated, Banti confessed his crime. Then we arrested the remaining three accused from their houses in Azadnagar thana area in Mango one after another early on Sunday morning. We recovered the smartphone from the possession of Baccha," said the DSP (Headquarters-I) while addressing a press conference on Sunday afternoon.

Kumar said the investigation was carried out by the Mango thana OC, Vinay Kumar who had swung into action to detect the case from the day the case was registered.

The police on Sunday forwarded the four accused to jail after producing them before a judicial magistrate in the afternoon.