India, March 9 -- A 23-year-old man, absconding for over a month after allegedly shooting at a lawyer in east Delhi's Trilokpuri, was arrested along with his two associates from near Gandhi Smarak bus stop on the Ring Road in central Delhi late Thursday night, police said on Sunday.

An illegal "made in Italy" pistol with a magazine loaded with three cartridges, five spare cartridges, and two scooters, one of them stolen from Sunlight Colony police station's jurisdiction earlier this month, were recovered from them, said officials.

Police identified the arrested as Sohaib alias Ajju,23, Majid,24 (both single names), and Mohammad Anees alias Sonu, 36.

Sohaib and Majid live in Trilokpuri, and Anees resides in Chandni Chowk in central Delh...