After the arrest of gangster Akhilesh Singh, the district police are gearing up to take him on transit remand. At present he is being treated at a hospital in Gurugram. He was arrested following an encounter. Police sources said that they will move the court to take him into remand.
Notably, the arrest of Akhilesh Singh had become a challenge for the police and administration. which had declared a reward of Rs 5 lakh on the head of the fugitive.
Son of Chandragupt Singh, general secretary of Jharkhand Police Association, Akhilesh set up a network extortionists and shooters.
Recently, a special task force (STF) of East Singhbhum district police, which was set up to nab the don had succeeded to pick up one of his close associates. On the information divulged by him, the police spread their net across Haryana, where Akhilesh was in hiding, and eventually nabbed.
The don stepped into the crime world by abducting the mobil merchant Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001. After his name figured in the Kabra abduction case, he had surrendered in the court on August 6, 2001. He fled the judicial custody on February 18, 2002. He was arrested from Varanasi on October 7, 2004. On September 2, 2007, he was granted a parole for attending his ailing mother.
A police official said that they want to give a message that no one can become rich by running a racket of extortion. He said that several close associates who used to help Akhilesh in perpetuating the extortion racket, notorious criminal have already been taken into custody for interrogation.
The gangster also possesses more than 20 such heavy vehicles and luxury cars which ply in Kolkata and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Police sources revealed that the gangster had tied a nuptial knot with a girl, Garima, who hails from lucknow. The gangster also bought a flat costing Rs 1 crore at Dwarka in New Delhi. Police are verifying facts regarding actual purchaser of the flat so that steps could be initiated to seize it.
Meanwhile, the security of Ghaghidih Central Jail has been tightened in view of the remand of criminal and mafia don Akhilesh Singh. Sources said that authorities of the jail were prompted to further tighten security as there is a probability of a gangwar between members of Akhilesh Singh gang and Paramjeet Singh, who are lodged in the jail.