A team of Bokaro Thermal police have claimed to have solved the case of loot of over 1.70 lakh reported under the same police station here on November 9, 2016 evening. The police said the driver of Mahindra pickup van had conspired to loot the money that was collected from different localities of Bermo. The loot case was solved by the Bokaro Thermal police station under the guidance of Bokaro superintendent of police Y.S. Ramesh on Tuesday, said Inspector cum Officer-in charge Rajesh Kujur . Police arrested accused Md Sagir Ansari at his native village Palani within jurisdiction Gomia police station and seized Rs53,000 and one motorbike hero Honda i-smart from him.
Police sources said that the incident had took place around 6pm on November 9,2016 at Jarandih market ,around 5 km from Bokaro Thermal police station ,while the van heading toward Bokaro Thermal from different place of the localities .Two staffs of the agency Manoj Kumar Singh and Rakesh Singh and driver of the van Shagir Ansari were carrying some patanjali articles and cash Rs1.7 lakh in a Mahindra pickup van (JH-09M -6171).When they had reached near Jarandih ,two of them had gone to near market for delivering the patanjali articles in a shop ,said an employee of R.R. agency proprietor Ravi Gulati. Officer-in charge informed that on being interrogated, the driver Sagir Ansari accepted that he had conspired to loot the money.
After taking this advantage Shagir Ansari started the van and fled toward the CCl power plant and dropped the van near Manik more and escaped with cash .The owner of the R.R. agency Ravi Gulati later informed the local police, police sources said .A case (107/16) had been registered with 407 of IPC.