Dhanbad witnesses sudden burst in crime including coal and sand smuggling after brief lull during tha assembly elections.
Yet another chapter was added on Sunday late evening in the ongoing gang war between Washeepur gangsters with henchmen claimed to be of absconding Prince Khan opened fire on Sonu Khan brother of Fahim Khan presenting a serving life sentence at Jamshedpur.. The two twowheeler bourn assail opened fire on Sonu near his residence located in Washeepur locality and escaped. Police are investigating the matter, claimed DSP law and order here , who had reached the spot after the incident.
In other parts there had been a sudden rise in coal and sand mining and transportation that had remained nil during the election period.
Illegal sand miners even manhandled Govindpur circle officers who attempted to stop them. Reports from coal bearing areas like Nirsa Baghmara besides others suggest that illegal mining and transportation has increased. Though police and mining task force officials have succeeded in seizure of some illegally mined coal, seizures are the tip of the iceberg, claim insiders.
