Gang looting finance companies in Dumka, Jharkhand arrested

The gang members used to pounce on the agents while they were returning after collection, he said adding that the gang members knocked the agents down from their bikes and looted the cash and other belongings.

An inter-state gang

involved in looting the agents of Microfinance companies was

busted with the arrest of eight miscreants and recovery of

arms and ammunition from them in Dumka district, police today

said.

Superintendent of Police, Kishore Kaushal said

incidents of looting of agents of microfinance companies were

taking place in Ramgarh, Saraiyahat, Hansdiha, Jama, Maslia

and Jermundi police stations for the last three months.

The gang members used to pounce on the agents while

they were returning after collection, he said adding that the

gang members knocked the agents down from their bikes and

looted the cash and other belongings.

Kaushal said a team headed by Deputy Superintendent of

Police Pujya Prakash was formed to investigate and apprehend

the culprits.

Based on inputs that the gang members had planned to

commit the crime, the Officer-in-charge of Shikaripara police

station, Manoj Kumar Thakur conducted a raid and arrested

seven members of the gang and the subsequent interrogation

with the arrested criminals led police to nab one more

accomplice from Chandangadia locality on Friday.

Apart from eight police stations of Dumka, the gang

members have committed the crime in Godda, Pakur as well as

adjoining areas of West Bengal, he said elaborating that the

gang members were also engaged in extracting ransom and levy

from businessmen and contractors on the pretext of being

naxals.

Police have also recovered a country-made carbine, a

7.62 bore semi-automatic pistol, two country-made pistols, one

single barrel rifle of .303 bore, 23 live cartridges, five

mobile phones and four motorcycles from them.

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