KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov 21: In a major breakthrough, the police have arrested a gang of six criminals who were about to commit robbery somewhere at the posh Circuit House Area in Jamshedpur’s Bistupur late on Monday night.
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Significantly, those arrested were in police uniform and were travelling in an SUV having a police nameplate on it.
The robbers were arrested near the Jubilee Park gate during a check by a patrolling party from the Bistupur Thana.
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From one of the criminals, the police recovered a loaded pistol that they were supposed to use while committing the crime.
The arrested persons are interdistrict criminals and were identified as Ramesh Mahto, a resident of Bhilaipahadi in MGM Thana area, Prabhas Mukherjee from Sitaramdera, Bablu Lohar from Birsanagar, Amritlal Singh and Manish Singh, both residents of Namkum in Ranchi, and Mahesh Singh Munda, a resident of Tupudana in Ranchi.
According to police, those arrested have confessed during interrogation that they used to commit robberies by using the police uniforms in the state.
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Though the police have forwarded them to judicial custody, the investigating police officer is likely to take some of the accused into police remand for further interrogation.