The Keredari police nabbed 10 road robbers near Kodwe village bridge on Thursday evening. Police seized 20 mobile sets, 2 watches and Rs 31,100 from the robbers who have been identified as the members of an inter-district road robber gang involved in many cases lodged in Hazaribagh, Koderma, Ramgarh and Chatra districts.
As per sources the villagers of Patrakala, Kodwe and Deshwari villages informed and helped police in this major success. On Thursday night, the road robbers looted about 10 to 12 coal laden trucks coming from Amrapali colliery near Patra village. In the night when the road robbers were in action some villagers, who were guarding their fields in the night saw it.
The villagers first tried to inform Hazaribagh police but when they failed, they tried to catch the road robbers with their collective strength because the robbers were using only canes in looting the drivers and cleaners.When villagers moved towards them at about 2 a.m. in the morning the robbers dodged them and escaped on their Bolero.
The villagers informed Keredari PS and the team on patrolling duty immediately rushed towards the way the Bolero of road robbers has gone. After sometimes they saw the Bolero coming in Kodwe village and after stopping it arrested all the 10 road robbers sitting in the vehicle.
The arrested road robbers are Shankar Ram, Saddam Ansari, Suhail Ansari, Mahboob Hussain, Md. Shahid Ansari, Manjoor Alam, Tabrej Alam, Md. Jamshed, Saddam and Saheb Ali, all residents of Kamta village of Tandwa block of Chatra district. Case no. 59/2014 has been lodged under section 395, 397 and 412 against them in Keredari Police Station.
It is said that Shankar Ram is the gang leader while two other members who belong to Balumath of latehar district were not with them last night. The arrested robbers have accepted their involvement in several cases of road robbery in different districts.The police team which arrested the road robbers include OC Keredari Anil Kumar Singh, Yogendra Prasad Singh, SS Toppo, Phillip Topno, Manoj Kumar, Yadunandan Goswami and others.
With the news of arresting of road robbers, it was also in talks today in Barkagaon and Keredari that this time after arresting no phone call came from minister that is why the criminals were sent to jail. It was in talks that in this area in several cases police left the nabbed criminals after receiving minster’s phone call.