Technical support of Palamu police saw the recovery of a looted Chhattisgarh truck in record time of a day. The incident occurred at the odd hour of 1 O’clock of January 13 on NH 75 at Kadhvan. The police, braving the cold winter, swung into action within hours of the loot. The driver of the truck had been made captive, thrashed and abandoned on NH 75 with hands tied up.
Giving the details, DSP Heeralal Ravi said, ‘An empty truck was looted by 5 at Kadhwan. The looters were 5 in numbers. They beat up the truck driver Imtiaz and held him tied down on NH 75 and sped away with the looted truck’.
Ravi said the truck driver used his common sense, took help at night from other vehicle driver and reached Parwa where is our police station. Here Imtiaz saw the police board with telephone numbers and he started giving rings to a couple of police officers said Ravi.
DSP added the police officials who got his call responded positively and kept his morale high telling him that his truck would be found out.
The police officials first informed DSP Ravi at night who got woke up SP Palamu Indrajeet Mahatha and at night itself a raid team was constituted with DSP Ravi as its head.
Ravi told the Pioneer ‘ The truck was fitted with GPS. It was a big relief to us. We started tracing it’.
He said DGP’s office in Ranchi too got on this case alerting all police stations falling on NH 75 to be in tracking mood and finally the Mandar police in Ranchi located this looted truck at Mandar and then Palamu police reached Mandar and recovered the looted GPS fitted Chhatisgarh truck.
Ravi said ‘ One can imagine the biting cold on the night and day of January 13 but everyone of us was determined to crack this case and the GPS fitted in the truck helped us to recover it fast’.
The 5 looters had among them a driver too who had taken away this truck with 4 of his other accomplices said Ravi.
The five arrested and jailed on Sunday are Jai Ram, Nirmal Burma, Afzal Ansari Seraj and Krishna Thakur.
The five come from three states Bihar Jharkhand and West Bengal. Jai Ram who hails from Bihar is operative in WB’s Burdwan district. From Giridih district come the remaining ones with exception to Thakur who is also operative in Burdwan in West Bengal.
Ravi said the five are historysheeters and are jail birds and are habitual offenders of law.