In a major breakthrough, the police on Tuesday arrested four criminals, who were members of two gangs and were involved in burglary and theft in the city.
The police recovered cash, mobile phones, motorcycles, and wrist watch from their possession.
Those arrested were identified as P Sinu (37) and Raja Das (22), both residents of Ganjam district of Odisha and Firoz Hassan (25) and Saddam Khan (23), both residents of Adityapur Muslim Bustee in Adityapur.
Superintendent of police (city) Prabhat Kumar said that there was a burglary in the house of Noor Ali on Road No 1 in Zakirnagar under Azadnagar police station in Mango in the night of March 29. In this connection, Noor's wife Sabana Bano had lodged an FIR with the Azadnagar thana on March 30, informing that the criminals have taken away gold jewelries.
“During the probe, the police detected the case and arrested the two criminals. On being interrogated, the three confessed their crime. The police team which was led by OC, Azadnagar thana Anjani Kumar Tiwary, also recovered the burgled cloths, the wrist watch and costly cloths from their possession,” said Kumar.
Kumar said, “there was a third criminal, Mohammed Azhar (27) was also involved in the burglary at Noor Ali's house, but Azhar was arrested by Seraikela-Kharsawan police in first week of April for being involved in a crime and presently lodged in Seraikela divisional jail.
Speaking about another case, Kumar said, two bike-born criminals had snatched Rs 80,000 from an elderly man, Vinod Singh, from near State Bank of India's Mango branch on Dimna Road on April 3 afternoon. The incident had taken place while, the victim who is a retired JUVNl employee and resident of Teachers' Colony in Mango, was returning home having withdrawn the money.
“The two accused P Sinu and Raja Das had not only snatched Rs 80,000 at Mango on April three, they had also committed similar crime Parsudih and Golmuri thana area in the past,” said Kumar.
Concerned over rising cases of snatching and burglary cases in city in the last few weeks senior police officials have decided to change patrolling strategy after dusk on roads.
An official said that they have framed a new strategy to curb the rising incidents of chain and mobile snatching incidents in the city off late.
It has come in our survey that as soon the patrolling van has moved away from a road snatching incident has happened.
Now we are encouraging police to use bikes and personal vehicles (four-wheelers) for patrolling. This would be in addition to bike-borne (Tiger Mobile) jawans and PCR vans on job on street.