As the police gear up for peaceful festive season, separate gangs of armed criminals committed robbery and opened fire at two houses in Kapali under Chandil police station area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district close to Mango in the wee hours of Wednesday.
In one of the incidents, a gang of armed robbers decamped with gold ornaments opening shots at the house owner Javed Pervez at Sai Colony a house under Kapali Thana outpost (TOP) close at about 2 am today, in an earlier incident another gang of armed criminals fired indiscriminately at the house of Mohammed Ishtiaqe from outside at Islamnagar under the same TOP area.
Pervez (40) who sustained a shot in his right thigh was rushed to the MGM Medical College and Hospital emergency in the wee hours. The police have arrested a 22-year-old criminal Mohammed Imtiaz and another suspected person for his involvement in the robbery in Sai Colony.
In the other incident at Islamnagar a gang of three armed criminals swooped over Mohammed Ishtiaqe house, who stays at Saudi Arabia. His wife Pervana Tabasum fell unconscious out of fear.
Pervana’s daughter Afrin (18) said that it was at about 11 pm, when the criminals were abusing at them aloud and had also fired shots in the air.
The officer-in-charge said that as the twin cases were a cause of concern for them.