Ranchi police have arrested one accused and recovered four firearms in the case related murder of Rakesh Yadav at Aryapuri under the Sukhdeonagar police station area on August 24.
The accused Himanshu Dubey was arrested from Garwah after analysis of the closed circuit television cameras near the spot of crime and other evidences.
Ranchi SSP Anish Gupta informed on Sunday that Yadav was murdered in due to love affair with a woman. Brother of the woman, Sanjay Pandey had hired the criminals including two from Uttar Pradesh and three from Garwah and Palamau for the crime. Pandey, who is lodged in jail for the past one week, had provided Rs 3.5 lakh to the criminals to kill Yadav.
The SSP said that Himashu took a room on rent in the same building in which Yadav lived in order to keep a close watch on his movement. He was paid Rs 60,000 apart from food and lodging for the job.
Meanwhile the accused had booked another room at Lalgutuwa to hide the weapons for the crime. On August 24, the criminals arrived at Aryapuri at around 9 am and waited for Yadav to come out of house. Yadav started for his office along with his brother on a scooty. As he reached near the Durga Mandir on Ratu road the criminals stopped his vehicles. Yadav and his brother tried to flee but the criminals chased Yadav and shot at him several times. They then hid the weapons at the rented room and fled out of Ranchi.
Police said that the arrested accused led the police to the room where the criminals had hidden four pistols and several cartridges. Police said that the accused has told police about the names and address of all the accused adding that raids were going on to nab them.
It may be mentioned here that police has registered a case (451/18) with the Sukhdeonagar police station under section 302/120B /34 of IPC and 27 of the Arms Act.
Ranchi SSP has said that he would soon issue direction to all police stations located on the bordering areas of Ranchi city to ensure that the new tenants are verified.
He said the crime in the recent past have revealed that criminals are using the newly constructed building in the sub-urban areas to hide while they plan to commit a crime in the city. He said that apart from the four weapons recovered at Lalgutua five pistols were also recovered from Nagri in the recent past.