Multan: Bahauddin Zakariya police claimed on Sunday to have arrested three notorious dacoits after a shootout at Multan Public School (MPS) road on Sunday early hours. On information about a robbery bid at MPS road, the police team rushed to the site and started chasing the criminals. Seeing police, the outlaws opened fire. The police had to return fire for self-defence. After the cross firing which lasted for 15 minutes, the police managed to arrest Talha aka Nomi, Zeeshan and Danial with bullet injuries received by the firing of their own accomplices. The police shifted the arrested criminals to hospital while search operation continued to arrest the fleeing criminals. The arrested criminals were wanted by police in more than 40 cases of dacoity, robbery, snatching and other criminal activities. The criminals had also snatched a motorcycle and cash from two brothers Imran and Shahid last Saturday and also shot at and injured them for putting up resistance. Further investigation was underway.