Vikash Tiwary sent to two-day judicial custody

The main accused of the murder of gangster Sushil Srivastava and his two associates in Hazaribagh court campus on June 2, 2015, Vikash Tiwari, was brought to Hazaribagh from New Delhi on Monday  evening and was produced in CJMs court on Tuesday evening amidst heavy security arrangement. The court ordered to send him to JP Naryan central jail Hazaribagh on two-day judicial custody. On August 6, he will be produced before the court once again.

The police sources informed that the gangster Vikash Tiwari, who is the main accused in case no. 610/15related with shootout in Hazaribagh court campus was arrested by the New Delhi police on August 1 from Chelmsford Road while he was on the way to catch a train from New Delhi railway station.

After his arrest, New Delhi police informed to Jharkhand police. A team of police officer wassent to New Delhi. After getting three days transit remand from Patiala house court the officer brought back him to Hazaribagh yesterday late evening.Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Jha said that we will pray to the court for the remand of Vikash Tiwari tomorrow. We will try to get at least one week long remand because he is the kingpin in the broad day light shootout conspiracy which took place in Hazaribagh court campus on June 2 this year.

Gangster Sushil Srivastava was shot dead by Tiwari’s henchmen with AK-47 rifles when he was leaving the court in police custody. Two associates of Srivastava were also killed in that firing while a policeman and a civilian got injuries in that incident.The rivalry between Tiwari and Srivastava gangs is about two decades old and many had lost their lives in this bloody battle till now.It was in talks today that the shooters of Srivastava gang had reached to Delhi and had planned to kill Tiwari either at Delhi or Ranchi or in between Ranchi-Hazaribagh but due to alert police team their plan failed.

As per the directives of SP Akhilesh Jha police officials including DSP Satish Chandra Jha, DSP Dinesh Kumar Gupta and OIC Sadar DN Azad first brought Tiwari to Sadar hospital at about 5 pm where Dr. AK Rajan and Dr. Manitosh Kumar made his health checkup. From here he was carried to court campus at about 5:15 pm just after the end of court time. large numbers of police jawans of SAP were with the team of police officers during the exercise of his medical checkup and production before the chief judicial magistrate.