Police on Wednesday arrested four people in connection with the killing of petrol pump owner, Virendra Singh, on April 8 and robbing the slain businessman of Rs 3 lakh. The incident had taken place near a bus stop at Ghatdwar-Basudih situated between Silli and Banta. However, more arrests are likely to be made soon as the police claimed that more criminals are involved in the act.
Based on the technical and human inputs police arrested Aman Kumar Singh, Sahdeo Mahto, Subhash Mahto and a woman conspirator, Sumi Devi from different areas. Sahdeo has been arrested earlier also for bank robbery.
“Robbery was the main reason behind this incident. Sahdeo was the mastermind and few criminals were called from Bokaro. They recced the area for about 10 to 15 days and everything was planned based on that,” said Ranchi SSP, Prabhat Kumar.
Police confided that based on the inputs generated from interrogation the number of criminals would be around 11 to 12 and raids are being conducted to nab the remaining members of the gang. The women conspirator provided shelter to the criminals after the incident.
Despite arrest police could recover only Rs 26,800 from three assassins. Recovery made during the operation includes two motorcycles besides cash soaked in blood.“They (criminals) shared the looted amount at the woman’s house,” added the Ranchi SSP.
Singh was also a lawyer at Civil Court Ranchi and his assassination had led to widespread protest by lawyers with demands to crack case and bring all involve to book. Singh was killed on April 8 afternoon while he was on his way back to home.