The loot incident under Sadar police station from the owner of Mahamaya Petrol pump at Kokar that took place on April 4 was solved on Wednesday. The culprits are under custody of Ranchi police. During a Press briefing, SSP Ranchi Prabhat Kumar said that the arrested accused have revealed that the mastermind of the loot was Arvind Paswan, who used to stay in a rented house at Kokar.
According to the arrested accused, they looted Rs3.09 lakh and six people were involved in the loot. Three of them identified as Arvind Paswan from Bhurkunda, Rajesh Srivastava from BRl colony under Kujju PS and Rajnish Kumar Singh from Roba colony under Kujju police station were arrested and the other three were absconding.
During the police remand the culprit Rajnish Kumar Singh revealed that a sum of Rs49,000 of his share has been deposited in his account in State Bank of India at Ramgarh branch and now the account has been frozen by police. He also said that during the incident they used FZ bike and a white coloured Scooty. According the SSP all the culprits have criminal record and they have already been to jail on various serious charges. The recoveries made by police team are black bag, a knife, two purse with Rs610 and Rs990, three mobile phones and the white colour scooty JH2JD/9685 which was used in the loot.