Bokaro police on Tuesday foiled several dacoity attempts by busting an inter-district gang. Thirteen criminals were arrested while six managed to escape. Police recovered two pistols, 14 live bullets, three motor bikes and 9 cell phones form their possession.
Working on a tip-off police team conducted raids and attested the criminals from Tandbalidih under Jaridih police station where they were making plan to conduct loot incidents, said SP Bokaro.
“Thirteen were arrested while six of them got success in escaping; police on hunt to arrest them”, he added. The arrested are Ashok Saw, Ravindra Pandey, Delip Mishra, Ajay Pal, Mithelesh Pandey, Ravindra Das, Satish Turi, Baiju Pal, Ravi Pal, Rajesh Saw, Madan Saw, Dhananjay Mandel and Omnath Singh while escaped were identified as PReam Singh, Amit Singh, Pritam Singh, Subhani Ansari, Muslim Baba and Abhinandan Pandey, said SP.
During interrogation criminals accepted that they were gathered at Balidih School ground to plan out four new robberies— one at a Jeweller’s house under Balidih police station, Rs One Crore robbery at Punjab National Bank at Kumardhubi in Dhanbad district to commit loot from a Sadam based cloth merchant under Gomia police station and also from a Gomoh based liquor merchant, said SP.
“All of them are involved in several loots, robberies and also for ransom call incidents in Bokaro and Dhanbad districts. Many cases have been logged against them under Dugdha police station, Gomia, Gandhi Nagar Bermo, Mahuatand, Paterwar and Balidih police station”, added SP.