The Latehar district police, on Monday, succeeded in arresting three accused of demanding extortion by playing posters in the name of gangster Gopal. The three accused have been arrested from near Chandwa High School. Police have recovered threatening posters and a rifle from them.
The arrested accused include the names of Rahul Kumar Singh father Kaleshwar Singh resident of village- Chetar under Chandwa police station of Latehar district, Sunil Bhuiyan father Kuldeep Bhuiyan resident of village-Chetar under Chandwa police station in Latehar district and Mithun Yadav father Gajendra Yadav resident of village- Sikni under Chandwa police station in Latehar district.
Giving information in the press conference, SDPO Santosh Kumar Mishra said that secret information was received that some people of criminal tendency have gathered near Chandwa High School with the intention of carrying out some untoward incident. On the basis of this information, the raid was conducted with the raiding team under the leadership of Narayan Yadav, the police sub-inspector of the patrol team,” he added.
“The raiding party observed two suspicious people gathered near RK High School Chandwa with the aim of carrying out some untoward incident and pasting threatening posters those who tried to run away on seeing the police force. But the raiding party laid siege and caught them. Here Rahul Kumar Singh and Sunil Bhuiyan were arrested by the police. Later, on his tip, the third accused Mithun Yadav was arrested,” said Mishra.
The SDPO said that 0.303 rifle has been recovered at the instance of the arrested accused. “All the three accused are active members of banned militant outfit SJMM, who issued threats in the name of gangster Gopal Shark Shooter at the behest of the organization's commander Rajesh Singh father Ramjatan Singh (Chiro, Chandwa Latehar) and Pradeep Ganjhu (Bulhu, Chandwa Latehar). The poster was pasted in the past and even today the canopy had come for the purpose of pasting,” he added.
The police team recovered 2 posters threatening the name of gangster Gopal Shark Shooter, name printed 17 plain poster and a rifle of 0.303.
Police Sub-Inspector Narayan Yadav Chandwa, Police Sub-Inspector Divya Prakash Chandwa, Police Sub-Inspector Dharmendra Kumar Mahto Latehar, Police Sub-Inspector Diwakar Dhobi Latehar and armed forces of SAT 202 Chandwa police station were involved.