UP-Bihar robbers’ gang busted, 9 held in Kaimur

Kaimur police busted an interstate robbers’ gang and arrested nine of fourteen members, including the kingpin, during raids over the last 72 hours in bordering areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Thursday

Kaimur police busted an interstate robbers’ gang and arrested nine of fourteen members, including the kingpin, during raids over the last 72 hours in bordering areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Thursday.

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Police recovered three rifles, a pistol, cartridges, a looted pick-up van, three motorcycles, gold and silver jewellery, a television set, mobile phones and ₹25,000 from the arrested gang members along with other articles, officials said.

According to the police, the gang was involved in numerous incidents of murder, loot and burglary in Kaimur and bordering Chandauli and Varanasi districts of Uttar Pradesh since long. “They adopted a unique modus operandi to escape police. The gang always reached the place of occurrence with a pick-up van and escaped to the bordering state after committing the crime,” the superintendent of police (SP) Rakesh Kumar said.

After the gang looted 90 sheep from a village under Chainpur police station limits on April 30, SP Kumar formed a special team to track the criminals. The gang’s kingpin and his two brothers were arrested from their native Dumraith village, officials said.

He said police have identified the rest of the absconding gang members and they will be arrested soon.