The Garhwa police in a special checking drive nabbed seven thieves of two gangs from two separate places in district on Saturday night. The police also recovered one country made pistol, one live cartridge, Rs. 21020 cash, six stolen bikes, two laptop, two adopter, two biometric machine and three mobile handsets from their possession.
Four persons, Ashutosh Sharma, a resident of Sarkoni village, Rasul Mansoorie, Rakesh Kumar Gupta both resident of Birajpur village and Anuj Kumar, a resident of Hansker, were nabbed by a Ramkanda patrol party on Bhandariya - Ramkanda Road while they were roaming on a stolen bike. Seeing the police, the criminals tried to hide their motorcycles and started running away, but the police caught them, Garhwa Superintendent of Police Anjani Kumar Jha said.
One country-made pistol, one live cartridge, Rs. 21020 cash, six stolen bikes , two laptops, two adopters, two biometric machines, and three mobile handsets etc were recovered from them.
The arrested criminals confessed their involvement in six cases which include looting of Rs 1,47,230 from a petrol pump at Mahuli more, looting silver and gold ornaments valued around Rs. 2 lakh from a jewellery shop in Kharsota village, looting cash of Rs. 68920 from a customer relationship executive from a private company etc.
In another incident, three two-wheeler snatchers were arrested on Bisunpura Road near Kocheya more.
The arrested criminals include Birendra Rajwar a resident of Sarang, Binod Rajwar a resident of Chitari, and Vikas Kumar Dubey a resident of Garakhurd. The police recovered two bikes, one moter pump from their possession.
The police said that the trio was nabbed on the based off a tip-off and two stolen motorcycle and one pump were recovered from them. The arrested criminals confessed their involvement in three loot cases including stolen two bikes, motor pump etc.