The police have arrested one Sahzada Khan for alleged involvement in Tata Steel employee Satyadev Yadav’s murder at Jugsalai on September 15. A 9mm pistol and two live cartridges were also recovered from Khan’s possession.
A resident of Kapali, Chandil police station area, Sahzada (32) is one of the five suspects whose names have figured in the investigation into the murder case. The four others are Mohammed Badku, resident of Mosabani and Mohammed Kadir, a resident of Nimdih and Afsar Khan and Mohammed Shaqeel, both residents of Adityapur Muslim Bustee.
The East Singhbhum senior superintendent of police Amol V Homkar said that the murder of the Tata Steel employee Satyadev Yadav was conspired by Afsar Khan, a noted criminal. During the interrogation, Sahzada confessed that it was Afsar Khan, who is his brother-in-law, to have conspired the shooting meant to spread fear in the area.
According to the senior SP, the aim behind the September 15 shooting was to create panic among the people concerned, including the members of rival gang and also the officials of Tata Steel’s department of raw materials department.
Satyadev Yadav (47) who worked as a lineman in the company’s loco, was shot dead while he was returning to the Tata Steel’s Adityapur railway siding having unloaded the coal in the Tata Steet on September 15. A resident of Post Office Road, Baridih, Yadav had sustained single bullet and had collapsed on the loco.
Homkar said that he would hold a meeting with the security personnel and the meeting is aimed at bringing about fear free loco train service between the Tata Steel works and the company’s siding at Adityapur.
Notably, Mukdum area in Jugsalai, where Yadav was shot, is considered to be a safe haven for anti-social elements, especially iron-thieves. Incidents of firing due to intra-gang rivalry have been occuring to establish their supremacy in the area.