The Bokaro Thermal and Bagodar police jointly busted an inter-State gang of heavy vehicle lifters and recovered a truck and 300 jars of oil consisting of fortune refined from a grocery shop located in Jaridih market in Bokaro district, following a tip-off.
The Bokaro Thermal and Bagodar police led by officer in-charge laxami Kant and Surender Singh on Monday morning arrested five criminals from the vicinity of the Jarandih area at Bokaro in the district’s Thermal police station area.
The arrested persons were allegedly involved in various illegal activities in Bihar and Jharkhand. The arrested have been identified as Sonu Kuswaha, Manoj Dubey, Bhuneshwar Nayak, Shankar Kumar and Megh lal.
While Kuswaha is a resident of Siwandih in Bokaro while Manoj Dubey, a resident of Bokaro city and two others are from Chalkari village in Bermo. All are in the age group of 25 to 30 years.
According to reports received on Monday, this truck was hijacked by a gang of inter-state heavy vehicle lifters gang about two week ago on January 29 from NH-2 under Dumari police station at Giridih district when truck loaded with Fortune refined worth Rs5 lakh was proceeding to Gaya from Haldia, West Bengal by the members of the gang and brought the vehicle at Jarandih.
The officer-in charge laxami Kant said the truck has West Bengal registration number WB-29A-6356. As soon as the criminals stopped the vehicle near NH-2, the miscreants numbering five forcibly boarded the vehicle and took control of the steering and tied the hands of driver and his khalasi and threw them out of the vehicle and escaped with vehicle.
After this, the truck crew somehow managed to free themselves and lodged an FIR (17/15) with Dumari police station. The Thermal officer in-charge laxami Kant, on getting information, conducted raids in several garages and located the garage near Chas and seized the vehicle. Four persons were arrested.