A news about the escape of a hardcore criminal, named in several cases of loot, from the police custody in Jankipuram police station area on Saturday night kept the police on tenterhook round the day on Sunday.
Inspector, Jankipuram, PK Jha, however, termed the news as a ‘fake news’ and said some disgruntled elements uploaded the news item on the social media.
He said no person was nabbed by the police. Sources, however, claimed that the news was true and it spilled out after two constables fought with one another and one of them leaked it to some newsmen.
As per reports, the social media was uploaded with a news that a criminal, identified as Mithun aka Baba of sector 3 of Jankipuram, was caught by police on Friday night on an informer tip-off. As the news started doing rounds on the social media on Sunday, senior police officials pulled up inspector, Jankipuram, while seeking entire details of the incident. However, the news could not be verified till late at night on Sunday.
Sources said the police had nabbed Mithun near CDRI colony and later took him to the police station for further interrogation. They disclosed that the police bundled him in their jeep and headed for the police station. “On the way, the miscreant pretended urgency to answer the nature’s call and later fled. Two constables chased him but he disappeared taking advantage of the darkness in the area,” the sources claimed.
Fire
Above eight shanties were gutted when a fire broke out at a rag pickers’ colony in Hari Nagar locality under Thakurganj police station area on Sunday morning. luckily, no casualty was reported in the incident.
According to police, around 10 am, the fire broke out in one of the shanties when the inmates were cooking food. The fire later spread and engulfed the entire colony of the rag pickers by the time any help came to them. later, a fire tender and a police team reached the place and fire was doused.
Giving detailed information, the police spokesman said the land was owned by one Rajju Pal of the locality and the families in rag picking job were living there for a long time. He said more than 80 families were rendered homeless in the fire and the police teams helped them in arranging food and other items of daily use.