India, May 8 -- PATNA Bihar police on Friday arrested three people, including two Nepal nationals, from Sheohar district for allegedly breaking into a gold traders house in Thanpur village under Mahnar police station area of Vaishali district and looting valuables worth lakhs of rupees.

One of the accused, Jairam Paswan, a notorious dacoit from Nepal, has been wanted by the Bihar Police since 1998. He had then fled Malaysia after a dacoity at Madhubani's Kendriya Vidyalaya in 1998 and, according to the police, he has been intermittently returning to Bihar and fleeing abroad after committing similar crimes.

Police said that a dozen-armed dacoits had opened fire and hurled bombs while fleeing with the cash and valuables on April 21. Polic...