Palamu police have cracked a case of crime committed with a toy pistol.
On December 12 a band of 10 to 15 people one of them having toy pistol reached the construction site of the third railway track at Chiyanki in the dead of winter night around 2 am and posing this toy pistol as the real one in the dead of night overpowered the lone man of the construction agency KPTL Mohiuddin Ansari and looted various things related to the laying down of the third railway line.
A team of 10 police officers namely SDPO sadar Rishabha Garg IPS, inspector town circle Rajballabh Paswan and officer in charge of the Sadar police station Gautam Kumar cracked this case in 48 hours.
SDPO Rishabha Garg said police have arrested 10 criminals involved in this crime at the construction site of the third railway track at Chiyanki.
Police have found the toy pistol which the band of the criminals used as a real one. The materials that these criminals looted were ferried to Bihar in a four-wheeler which Palamu police have seized also.
Garg said the criminals knew the art of using toy pistols as real ones, which was enough for the lone Ansari there at the construction site to remain frozen in the cold night.
The SDPO said this band of the criminals had split into more groups each assigned to carry out the crime and then to disappear.
Palamu police even reached Gopalpur in Patna looking for a junk dealer who by then had gone into hiding.
Among the 10 arrested, eight hail from Latehar district, one from Palamu and one from Bihar.
All the 10 have been remanded in judicial custody this evening.