Garhwa Police on Monday claimed to have busted an interstate gang of robbers with the arrest of four of its members, and seized a huge cache of arms from their possession. Two of the robbers managed to escape.
The arrested robbers were identified as Khustar Ansari a resident of Khala village under Dhurki Police Station, Saddam Ansari of village Madhuri under Bisunpura PS, Rasul Kudus a resident of village Sidhi under Ramana PS of Garhwa district and Samir Ali a resident of village Solan under Singrauli PS of Madhya Pradesh.
Garhwa SP Mohamad Arshi said that acting on a tip-off, a police team led by Niraj Kumar ,SDPO Nagar Untari arrested the robbers from Dahediya Middle School of village Khala under Dhurki Police Station, when they were hatching a loot plan .
On seeing the police team, the gang members wanted to escape but the police cordoned off the area and arrested four of them. Two of the gang members, however, managed to escape, he added.They were members of the interstate gang that was operating in Garhwa and Chhattisgarh, MP states.
The SP claimed that the two robbers Khustar Ansari and Sadam Ansaria admitted to have committed about two dozen robberies. Two country made .315 rifles, four country made pistols, 44 live cartridges, stolen money of Rs.1.60 lakh and jewellery worth Rs.5 lakh and two bikes were recovered.
The robbers admitted that recovered money and articles had been looted from the house Ganesh Singh at village Rohilla under Bisunpura police station on April 3.Arshi said that Khustar was released from the judicial custody about three month back. Khustar also named under Crime Control Act(CCA) was the gang leader.
Describing the modus-operandi of the gang, SP said the robbers, dressed up as security forces, and looted on the name of Extremist.