A total of seven people have been arrested by the Hazaribagh Police in connection with the firing at Jhanda Chowk on Sunday morning. Of these, four have been arrested from Hazaribagh and three from Chatra. The police of Sadar and Lohsigna police stations of Hazaribagh have recovered two cartridges, one live cartridge as well as a bullet plate of 7.65 bore fired from the spot.
On the other hand, the Swift car used in the incident, accused of firing and two pistols, 38 live cartridges, one kg of ganja and brown sugar besides torches and other items have been recovered from Chatra.
SDPO, Sadar, Mahesh Prajapati gave this information in a press conference at Sadar police station on Monday. He said that the criminal records of the arrested accused are being searched. It is clear that all the arrested accused were involved in drug smuggling and are among the important people of the brown sugar sale gang in the urban area.
The arrested accused have been identified as Istekhar Ahmed alias Itfekar, Danish Malik alias Jaji, Sadnam Khan alias Salman Khan, Shubham Singh, brother of Shubham Singh, Vikram Singh, Mukesh Kumar and Avinash Kumar. The same faction was behind the firing at Jhanda Chowk. There were people and all came to Jhanda Chowk to drink tea to account for the transaction of money. In this, Vikram Singh came to Jhanda Chowk by car along with his brother Shivam. Three of the four arrested are residents of Jama Masjid Subhash Road, two hundred meters from Jhanda Chowk. While drinking tea, there was a dispute over something and Vikram took out a pistol from his car and tried to fire it in the air, but he got splashed and the bullet went into the shop.