Four motorcycle-borne miscreants looted a cash van near Axis Bank and killed the guard around 12 noon on Tuesday. A cash van was standing near the bank located in Badli Katra locality under Katra Kotwali police station for depositing the cash when the miscreants shot the guard and fled with a box of cash. To create an atmosphere of terror miscreants opened fire as a result of which three civilians suffered bullet injuries. On information the police reached the spot, brought the injured to the hospital where the doctors declared the guard Jay Singh as brought dead and started the treatment of the injured. The condition of the injured was out of danger, last reports received here said. The injured were identified as Bahadur Lal Gaud (45) of Vindhyachal, Akhilesh Kumar(35) of Padari and Rajneesh Maurya of Bisundarpur under Dehat Kotwali police station. DIG RP Singh and other authorities visited the spot.
DRIVE: Under a special 10 days drive to control tax evasion and overloading a team led by ADM (Finance and Revenue) Shiv Pratap Shukla took action against 52 vehicles till Monday. Giving details Senior Mines Officer Shailendra Singh said 10 vehicles found flouting rules had been handed over to police custody at different police stations and online challan of 42 vehicles was done through mCheck App. He claimed that Rs 36.50 lakh will be realised as revenue related to different departments.
RESHUFFLE: In a big reshuffle on Monday most of the police stations in the district got new incharges. Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhinandan posted Bal Mukund Mishra from Police Lines to SHO (City Kotwali), SHO (City Kotwali) Arvind Mishra was transferred as SHO (Vindhyachal Kotwali). SHO (Vindhyachal Kotwali) Arvind Pandey was transferred to the crime branch along with SHO (Dehat Kotwali) Brijesh Singh. SHO Madihan Shailesh Rai was sent to Dehat Kotwali as SHO and SO Jamalpur Veerendra Singh was transferred as SO Padari. Besides, SO Padari Ajit Srivastava was transferred to Lalganj police station as SO and Arvind Saroj from crime branch to Chilh police station as SO. Ravindra Bhushan Maurya has been transferred as SO Kachhawaan from Police Lines and SO Kachhawaan Ram Swaroop Varma was sent to the crime branch. Raj Kumar Singh posted in the IGRS cell was made SO Adalhat while SHO Adalhat Vijay Kumar Chaurasiya was transferred to Madihan police station as SHO. SO Santnagar Ram Narain was made SO Jamalpur. SO Ahraura Kumud Shekhar was transferred to the crime branch and SO Chilh Samar Bahadur was made the SO Santnagar.
RECOVERED: Under a eight- day-long drive in view of festival of Krishna Janmashtami the range police nabbed 126 persons and recovered liquor worth more than Rs 6 lakh. In compliance with the order of the police headquarters the police under the range conducted the drive against storage, transportation, sale and manufacture of illegal liquor under the direction of DIG (Police) RP Singh and raided the possible spots. The police nabbed habitual criminals and recovered liquor on a large scale. DIG RP Singh directed the cops to keep continue action against illegal trade of liquor and ensure that no such activity should comes to notice.
ARRESTED: In the joint operation of Kachhawaan police station and SOG the police arrested a criminal carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on Monday. On being informed about the presence of a hardcore criminal in the area, the Kachhawan police took the help of the SOG and raided the place.
On seeing the police the criminal opened fire but in retaliation of the police he got injured and was caught. After arresting him the police admitted him to the hospital and is under medical treatment. As per the police the criminal is involved in the illegal trade of liquor and is an accused in several cases, including opening fire on the cops of Nokha police station, Rohtas district of Bihar.
After the arrest the police recovered a motorcycle, a countrymade gun and three empty cartridges. The accused was identified as Anil Chaudhary of Kuraaich under Sasaram Town police station, Rohtas district, Bihar.