Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Police, with the help of STF from Patna, arrested terror of Danapur Diara (Patna) and Sonpur (Sarran) Shambhu Gope alias Shambhu Rai from Chandi police station area in Bhojpur district on October 15, 2020, late evening. Later, the STF team took him to Patna with them. Shambhu Gope alias Shambhu Rai is a resident of Harshamchak-Govardhan village under Akilpur police station in Patna district. Seven criminal cases of murder, rangdari (two with Akilpur Police station, two with Dighwara police station, and one each with Sonpur, Maner, and Shahpur police stations) are pending against him.
STF said that Shambhu Gope was involved in rangdari, murder and capturing lands and was absconding for long. Patna police got information that Shambhu Gope was hiding in an area under Chandi police station in Bhojpur district. An STF team from Patna reached Ara and with the help of their Bhojpur counterpart arrested Shambhu Gopeand took him to Patna with them.
Sources said that some persons alighted from Bolero on Nasariganj-Sakaddi State Highway about 300 metre from Chandi police station near Bhram Baba temple and lifted Shambhu Gope, who was going with his wife on a motorcycle. The Bolero men left the woman and took Shambhu Gope with them. Shambhu Gope had come to his relative at village Zamira under Ara Muffasil police station and was going to Danapur with his wife on a motorcycle via Nasariganj-Sakadi State Highway when police arrested him near village Bhadwar in a film style and went through Kulharia railway crossing.
Shambhu Gope was in the crime world for the last seven years and was active in Patna, Shahpur, Maner, Akilpur, Sonpur, and Dighwara areas. The first criminal case was filed against him in 2013 by Akilpur police station in Patna district for firing and attempt to murder. Other criminal cases were lodged by Maner PS in 2018, by Dighwara PS in 2019, by Shahpur PS in Patna in August 2020 but he was absconding.