Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Police arrested eight miscreants from different places in Bhojpur District in connection with three different cases and also seized firearms from their possession. They were sent to jail after interrogation.
The arrested miscreants were identified as Dhan Jee Yadav, Amit Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Sujit Kumar, Bablis Sah, and Gautam Kumar.
Bhojpur SP Vinay Tiwari, talking to mediapersons on January 15, 2022, said that some unidentified armed miscreants had shot dead an employee of Bandhak Bank Vijay Kumar Prasad near Nonar Bridge under Tarari police station (PS) on January 4, 2022, when he was returning to bank after collection.The SP formed a police team under the SDPO, Piro, Rahul Kumar Singh, that acting on tip off, arrested Dhan Ji Yadav from his village Sedaha who confessed before police during interrogation that he along with his associates Amit Kumar, Rohit Kumar, and Rakesh Kumar Singh of his village, had shot dead Vijay Kumar Prasad during snatching his money.
The miscreants hid the countrymade pistol at the house of Dhanji Yadav. Later, police arrested his associates, Amit Kumar, Rohit Kumar, and Rakesh Kumar Singh, and also recovered a countymade pistol, a live cartridge, one blank cartridge, a motorcycle and bag of the deceased containing register and bank’s papers on the revelation of Dhan Ji Yadav. The SP said that Dhan Ji Yadav had been in jail in connection with liquor smuggling and was out on bail.
The SP stated that Abhikesh Kumar and Sujit Kumar had shot dead one Nikhil Kumar, a poultry farm owner, when he was returning home from a party y at Bablis Kumar’s residence on January 10, 2022. The reason behind the incident was said to be a dispute in the poultry farm business in which Abhishek Kumar and Sujit Kumar had invested. Later, police arrested Abhikesh Kumar, Sujit Kumar, and Bablis Kumar. Police also recovered a pistol used in the incident.
The SP further said that police arrested Gautam Kumar from his native village Ramnagar under Tarari police station and recovered a countrymade rifle from his possession.