Hazaribagh police nabbed two members of an inter district looters gang in an special operation,including the mastermind on Saturday night. Three members of the gang succeeded in escaping from the clutches of Hazaribagh police.It also recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunitions from them.
SP Anoop Birthare gave this information in a press conference held in his office on Sunday. “We received information from an unknown person that a gang of inter district looters has reached Hazaribagh and is planning to execute some big crime in the district. On this information, a team was formed under the leadership of TOP III in-charge Inspector Rama Kant Mishra.”
The team started patrolling and checking drive on Hazaribagh-Dhanbad road. At about midnight the police team saw some persons standing behind a big tree on the NH. As the police reached there, they tried to run away but the Police team chased them and finally arrested two of them while three managed to escape taking the benefit of darkness, the SP added.
During interrogation, one of the arrested looters confessed that he is the mastermind of the gang.
“His name is Arvind Hembram, a resident of Hazaribagh. Another arrested looter is Vikram Vikash of Koderma district. They also confessed that they were planning to loot some passenger buses,” added the official.
They also said that they have looted about Rs 6lakh from a gambling spot of Nagawan village of sadar block of Hazaribagh some days ago. Police also recovered three looted motorcycles, five sets of military uniform , one country made carbine, three country made pistols, one knife, five live cartridges and four mobile sets.