Lakhisarai. On the basis of secret information, the police arrested two people with weapons from Indupur Tajpur of Badhiya police station area on Tuesday. While the third person managed to escape during the action. The arrested criminal smuggles opium from Jharkhand and arms from Lakhisarai. In this regard, in his office room on Wednesday, SP Pankaj Kumar told a press conference that on Tuesday, Badhiya police station chief Chandan Kumar had received secret information that three persons were going from Lakhisarai to Tajpur village of Badhiya by bike. After the information, a raid team was formed under the leadership of ASP Roshan Kumar.
Raid on Rishtu Kumar’s house
The raiding team raided the house of Rishtu Kumar, son of Kaushal Kishore Singh, resident of Indupur Tajpur Ward-24, along with Rishtu Kumar, arrested Guddu Kumar, son of Rannu Yadav, resident of Postia village of Jodi police station under Chatra district of Jharkhand state. On the other hand, Ranjit Singh, son of Ramsen Singh, resident of Tajpur Ward-24, managed to escape. During the raid, a pistol, four cartridges of 7.85 mm, a magazine, a Hero company bike BR 53 F 7643 along with 60 thousand rupees in cash were recovered from the arrested people.
Ranjit Singh used to smuggle opium and weapons
During interrogation of the arrested person, information was received that Ranjit Singh smuggles opium and weapons along with Rishtu. Guddu Kumar, a resident of Chatra in Jharkhand, procures opium from Chatra and supplies arms from here. On the basis of the confession statement of these people, the names of some people of Munger and Jaitupar have come to the fore in arms smuggling, who supply arms through Rishtu Kumar to Bihar and other states outside Bihar as well. This is being verified by the police. Badhiya police station chief Chandan Kumar was also present during the press conference.
Arms consignment recovered from Jehanabad-Gaya
Here, on the other hand, the special team of Bihar STF together with the police of Jehanabad has arrested 5 arms smugglers. One of them is also an ex-army soldier. A consignment of weapons has been recovered from them. Also, after the arrest, the team raided Gaya on his trail during interrogation. A consignment of weapons has also been recovered from there. The big thing is that the arrested arms smugglers had made inroads in the Diara areas of the state. They have been supplying weapons in Diyara area for a long time. Selling a weapon for Rs 2 lakh and above.
Bablu Yadav is the kingpin
According to STF, the main leader of this gang of arms smugglers is the infamous Bablu Yadav. Its main partner is Tejamani Kumar. Tejmani Kumar, a resident of Bhatgaon in Barh, is a former army soldier. He had absconded earlier with the weapon of the army. Actually, STF was informed about the gathering of smugglers with weapons in Hulasganj police station area of Jehanabad. Action was taken on the basis of this input. A hideout was raided under a joint operation.
Mukesh Tiwari arrested
From there, Bablu Yadav, a notorious arms smuggler and a resident of Salimpur in Patna, Tarun Kumar of Ghoswari, Tejmani Kumar of Badh, Ravindra Kumar of Islampur in Nalanda and Mukesh Tiwari of Deep Nagar have been arrested. One 1.315 regular rifle, one piece two groove gun, one country made pistol of 7.65 mm, two magazines, 4 bullets of 315 bore, 17 bullets of 7.65 bore, 2 bullets of 12 bore and one Scorpio were recovered from them. Has gone.
Gaya’s Mubassir Alam absconding
After being caught, these weapon smugglers were interrogated. It was then learned that these people had bought the recovered weapons from Mubassir Alam, a resident of Angdha Tola Shekha Bigha under Belaganj police station in Gaya. Only after this the raid was done in Gaya. Mubassir Alam was found absconding from there, but when his house was searched, a country-made pistol, two sixers, two country-made pistols, a semi-made sixer, two bullets, 7 hollows and weapons-making materials were recovered from there. Now the search is on for the absconding Mubassir. After it is caught, it will be known from where he used to bring the weapon.