City police have brought fugitive criminal Vikram Sharma (45), who is known to have mentored gangster Akhilesh Singh, arrested on Saturday night from Dehradun (Uttarakhand), to the steel city.
City SP Prashant Anand, said that they went to Delhi from Uttarakhand and took a flight for Ranchi and then came on an SUV to Jamshedpur.
“We have completed the process of transit remand in Dehradun on Monday and reached Delhi and boarded a flight for Ranchi. We will produce Vikram Sharma in Jamshedpur civil court on Wednesday for a judicial remand,” said city SP.
He however, refused to give much about the criminal’s confession before the police. However, sources that the criminals has given important leads on Akhilesh Singh.
“The investigation is moving in right direction. We have collected several papers indicating Vikram Sharma, a resident of Sonari and currently staying in Dehradun, involvement with Akhilesh Singh business networks in several places like Noida, UP, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand. We have also got information about the extortion racket of the gangster. Interrogation is still on at Bistupur police station in a closed room,” said a senior DSP rank official.
Incidentally, Vikram Sharma had been absconding ever since his involvement came up the shoe baron Ashish Dey murder (early 2008) and did not venture to city to evade police arrest.
Sources in the underworld revealed that the fugitive has amassed crores or rupees by perpetuating the criminal activities, which was focused on the `extortion' from the businessmen and traders, and even the corporate houses. He used to run his `business' through a syndicate of criminals which has an effective strength of over 100 members. He has even invested the money earned from the extortions in real estate business in Jamshedpur and several other cities in Jharkhand and Bihar.
Akhilesh is accused in more than two dozen cases of grievous crime. The prominent cases in which he was wanted, include murder of shoe baron Ashish Dey, murder of Tata Steel security inspector Jairam Singh, murder of gangster Paramjeet Singh inside Ghaghidih Central Jail, the jailer Uma Shanker Pandey murder case in which he has already been sentenced to life imprisonment and kidnapping and murder of mobile merchant Om Prakas Kabra.