Ending a wait of eight years, during which he went from being just another proclaimed offender to most wanted criminal, Garhwa Police finally managed to arrest Chotu Rangsaj alias Bajuddin Rangsaj on Friday.
The arrest was made by a team of Ranka police led by SDPO Ranka in the early hours of Friday from a mohalla of Ranchi under Namkum police station, from a chase.
According to Garhwa SP Mohammed Arshi, acting on a tip off police team reached at Ranchi and waited there for two days. “After verifying his whereabouts, finally police arrested him on Friday morning. Chotu was wanted by police in about two dozen murder, dacoity and extortion cases. He was Supari killer and active in Garhwa, Palamu district and Balrampur and Raipur district of Chhatisgarh,” said Arshi.
“He was also extorting businessmen at will in the two regions. He had been declared Garhwa’s most wanted criminal. Police send a proposal of a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head,” he addd.
He is involved in crime from 1995 that time to fight with extremist he prepared a gang namely Om Ali Sena, which later convert in criminal gang. Earlier he had joined Bhola Pandey (Ranchi) gang, SP informed.
Chotu was involved in seven murder and one dozen dacoity incident in Garhwa district, while he also
involved in several crime in Palamu and Chhatisgarh State.
He was living in Namkum police station area like a gentleman and doing job is selling milk, where police nabbed him, the SP added.