Five members of an inter-State gang were today arrested by police in raids conducted at Kantatoli and lower Bazaar PS area in Ranchi. Arms and ammunitions were recovered from the possession of those arrested and police suspect that the gang was hatching a plot of robbery and murder. All members of the gang are wanted in cases in Jharkhand and Odhisha.
“This is an interstate gang. We suspect that they were planning something big and we are interrogating them to find out involvement in other cases,” said Ranchi SSP Prabhat Kumar.
The arrest was made in two separate raids conducted in Maulana Azad Colony and Kanta Toli by quick-response-team, police officials of Namkum and lower Bazaar. A case has been registered under Arms act has been registered with lower Bazaar PS against all arrested criminals. Police recovered two 9mm pistol and 20 live cartridges in the raid. The gang members are wanted in several criminal cases committed in Gumla, lohardaga, Hazaribagh and Ranchi.
The arrested goons—Moin Ansari, Quddus Ansari, Hasan Ansari, Tanvir Ohdara and kingpin of the gang, Sarvar Qureshi—are involved in cases of extortion, robbery of Rs 2.8-lakh in Chanho, double murder case in 2013 at Chanho besides two cases of rape.
The members of the gang were arrested by Odhisha police however Ranchi police is yet to find out the nature of the crime committed in the neighbouring state.
The double murder case is said to have been committed in January 2013 at a busy marketplace in Mandar in which a contractor, Mohammed Noor was shot multiple times in head while another person, Mansoor Ansari died after sustaining bullet injuries in the firing.