Hazaribagh police have seized a truck from the forest area of Daru and Ichak blocks of Hazaribagh district on Saturday. The truck was stolen two days ago by some unknown persons from Garwha district of Jharkhand. The truck was coming from Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradash. It was loaded with woolen cloths and furniture worth of about Rs 22 lakh.
SP Hazaribagh Akhilesh Jha said that his office received information from the villagers that a unknown truck is in the forest area of Tillaiya village of Daru block of the district. On the information of villagers a team under the leadership of Sadar Inspector Jitendra Singh along with officer in charge of Ichak and Daru police stations was sent there.
As the team reached the site of the forest area they saw a truck there in which some woolen cloths and furniture were loaded. Police team seized the truck and started investigation. During the investigation the team came to know that major quantity of the loaded material has been kept in the Karimati forest area of Ichak police station.
Police team recovered about 90 percent material from Karimati jungle and arrested two persons from there. The Police have not yet disclosed the names of arrested persons. SP said that we are trying to recover the remaining 10% material which is supposed to be kept in another part of the forest or have been sold by the persons involved in the crime.
The SP informed that interrogation is on.
and he has also tried to dig out the fact from the arrested persons. He further said that they are also trying to know the role of the truck driver in the case. The looted truck was of Road line Transport Company of Ghaziabad which was looted in Garhwa district of Jharkhand.