KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Dec 15: Mohammad Abdulla notoriously known as Chowda Raju who was wanted in connection with the Mango double murder case has now been traced at Haldia jail in West Bengal.
Chowda Raju is the main accused and conspirator in the murder of Mohammed Sajjad (40).
After shooting dead Sajjad, a land broker and also a notorious criminal at Jawaharnagar in Mango on December 8 forenoon, the two bike-borne criminals who were Chowda Raju’s shooters had tried to escape but were caught by mobile cops following a chase. But one of the cops, Ramdev Mahto, was shot by the criminals and later succumbed to his injury.
Shooter revealed name during interrogation
Incidentally, one of the shooters identified as Sanjay Sarkar was caught by the surviving mobile cop. It was during Sarkar’s interrogation that he divulged the name of Chowda Raju behind the murder of Sajjad.
Ever since the police had come to know about the involvement of Chowda Raju in the twin murder, they were carrying out random raids at different places for the arrest of accused.
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The police had also conducted raids at the house of Chowda Raju at Chowda village in Ichagarh in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district more than once. But on Thursday night, the police got to know that Chowda Raju is lodged in the Haldia jail since the past three days.
Raju was caught by RPF in Haldia
According to sources, the wanted criminal has been taken in a five-days police remand by the Haldia police in connection with a case registered under Arms Act there in Bengal.
A police team from Jamshedpur has left for Haldia this morning and is camping there so that once the five days remand period of Chowda Raju gets through, it will bring him on the transit remand from Haldia to Jamshedpur immediately.
According to sources, a pistol that Chowda Raju was clandestinely carrying had incidentally fallen off at the Haldia railway station platform, attracting the attention of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) jawans. Soon after, the accused had been taken into custody and was forwarded to the Haldia jail before he was taken into five days police remand for further interrogation.
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