Giridih police on Saturday busted an inter–state racket involved in different criminal activities including dacoity and loot in Giridih and nearby districts and arrested five persons.
According to reports, while three persons Biru Yadav,Ranjit Kumar Verma and Jageshwar Rana were arrested from Bagodar area, the police in its intensive raids conducted at Dewari area of Giridih district arrested two criminals identified as Surendra Yadav and Prabhu Saw. The police also recovered one pistol, 2 cartridges, three mobile sets and one motorbike stolen from Bagodar police station area .
Sub-divisional police officer Raj Kumar Mehta said that all those arrested admitted their involvement in 15 cases of dacoities, and vehicles theft in Giridih, Kodarma and Jamui in Bihar .The specific information that some members of gang are believe to be members of an inter-state criminal gang involved in several NH-2 dacoities and theft of vehicles ,SDPO further added .
The operation carried out on Saturday morning was jointly led by Raj Kumar Mehta ,SDPO along with the Bagodar and Dewari police in charge .Giridih police are also looking for more members of the gang whose names have been cropped up during their interrogation .