India, Dec. 25 -- Two men have been arrested in connection with the audacious attack on a police vehicle escorting a gangster to a Laksar court on December 24, police said on Thursday.

The two suspects, were identified as Sunny Yadav alias Shera (28), a resident of Gulzarpur under Kashipur police station in Udham Singh Nagar district, and Ajay (24), a resident of Kharmasa Colony, Kashipur, said Haridwar senior superintendent of police (SSP) Pramendra Dobhal.

The two were arrested from the forests near Sikandarpur village along the Bijnor Highway under the jurisdiction of Khanpur police station.

Their target was Vinay Tyagi, who was lodged in a Roorkee Jail under the Gangster Act, and was in the district to appear before a Laksar court ...