LUCKNOW, May 28 -- Two criminals who had allegedly returned to meet their families, one of them to celebrate Eid al-Adha at home, were arrested for violating district externment orders, police said on Thursday.
Mohanlalganj police in Lucknow's southern zone made the arrests during a late-night checking drive ahead of Eid celebrations, they said.
According to the police, a team was checking suspicious persons and vehicles near Kanakha turn on the intervening night of May 27 and 28 when it received information that Sarikh Khan alias Sharik (24) and Mohit Kumar (29), against whom externment orders were in force, had secretly returned to their homes.
The police carried out a raid in their village, Fattekheda, and found both men outside Mohit...