Police busted a gang of robbers and arrested three criminals including two women from different parts of the district on Sunday on charges of their involvement in several house robbery cases.
Three country-made single barrel guns, three country made pistols, 11 live cartridges, four twin bombs (cracker) and stolen jewellery and Rs 19,300/ cash and three police uniforms were recovered from them.
Garhwa Superintendent of Police Ashwani Kumar Sinha said the arrested criminals were identified as Manjay Kumar Chaudhary (35) a native of Kummi vullage, Karuna Panna (30) and Kiran Kerketa (32) both residents of Barwa village of the district.
“Police with the cooperation of public first arrested Jitendra Kumar Bhuiyan from Balekhand village during robbery in the house of Arun Kumar Soni, when he was running away after robber,” the SP added.
He said that the Jitendra revealed the name of their associate, during interrogation. “Jitendra is a resident of Jamua under Banshidhar Nagar police station area sent to the judicial custody. A raid was conducted on his tip off, leading to the arresting three and recovery of Three country-made one bore gun, three country made pistol, 11 live cartridges, four twine bomb(cracker) and stolen jewellery and Rs 19,300/ cash and three police dress," he said.
The arrested criminals have confessed their involvement in three other robbery cases. The arrested criminals have also given information about the others member. The number of members of this gang is 10. The SP said efforts are on to arrest other members of the gang.