Ranchi police tasted success when they arrested Vinod Bihari Singh alias Bhulan Singh alias Arun Kumar Singh from Hajipur in Bihar on Sunday.
Efforts to locate the whereabouts of Vinod were being made for last eight months after he escaped from police custody on June 16, 2015 while he was brought to Ranchi Civil Courts for being presented before Chief Judicial Magistrate.
On instructions from Kuldeep Dwivedi, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi, a team a team was formed under DSP (HQ-II) Sandeep Kumar Gupta. Acting on anonymous tip the team moved to Hajipur and arrested Vinod.
Operating mostly out of Palamu, Vinod has eight criminal cases registered against him in various police stations of Ranchi, lohardaga and Palamu, informed the SSP.
He further added, “He used to work for criminal Kunal Singh and was a notorious extortionist. Although, he has been active in criminal world for long, most cases to his name have been registered in 2014. We were even planning to announce a reward of Rs 40,000 for information about his location, but were able to arrest him before that.”
Meanwhile, Ranchi police also arrested two highway robbers involved in hijacking a truck from Maithan in Dhanbad and making away with truckload of animal parts worth Rs 23 lakhs. Tanveer Alam alias Babu and Firoz Qureshi alias Kuku were arrested and the truck and stolen merchandise were recovered by police forces on Sunday.
On reports filed by Maithan police about unknown criminals commandeering a goods truck at Sadar police station, Kuldeep Dwivedi, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi formed a team under Sadar DSP Vikas Chandra Shrivastav for apprehending the culprits.
On investigating the case further, Tanveer was arrested from Kantatoli and a revolver and six .38 bore live cartridges were retrieved from his possession. On his information, police forces nabbed Feroz from his house in Qureshi Mohalla in lower Bazaar. Another revolver and six live cartridges were found in his possession.
Interrogating them further, the police team came to know about the stolen truck hidden in Mandar and containing 227 bags of omasum, the muscular third stomach of an animal with sectioned stomach, costing Rs 23 lakhs. This part is used as a medicine in indigenous medicines.
“During interrogations, we have come to know about some of their other accomplices. We are currently verifying this piece of information,” said the SSP.