Jamshedpur Police arrest gang of four criminals involved in thefts and burglaries

Jeweler who used to buy stolen gold and silver jewelries nabbed

Jamshedpur: Police today arrested a gang of four criminals involved in thefts and burglaries in different parts of the city since the past three months. Apart from arresting the gang of thieves, the police have also arrested a jeweler who would buy stolen gold and silver jewelries.

The thieves who were arrested have been identified as Rohan Singh (29), Gurjeet Singh (27), Harpal Singh (28), all residents of Namda Bustee in Golmuri and Vikash Singh (23), a resident of Jojobera in Govindpur. The accused jeweler was identified as Kedarnath Soy (32), a resident of Shiv Singh Bagan in Sidhgora, having his jewellery shop, Ambika Jewellers at Sidhgora market.

Senior SP, Anoop Birtharay said that the gang that the city police has detected were involved in as many as 20 cases of thefts and burglaries committed in Bistupur Sidhgora, Agrico, Telco, Sakchi, and Kadma during the past three months.

“As per our findings, the gang had committed thefts and burglary at nine places in Sidhgora, four places in Telco, three places in Kadma, and one each at Bistupur and Sakchi,” said Birtharay.

The senior SP said that the thieves had stolen the car from the house of one Kishun Soren at Bagunhatu in Sidhgora thana area on January 30, and later they started using the car in committing the crime.

Concerned over rising cases of snatching and burglary cases in city in the last few weeks senior police officials have decided to change patrolling strategy after dusk on roads.

An official said that they have framed a new strategy to curb the rising incidents of chain and mobile snatching incidents in the city off late. It has come in our survey that as soon the patrolling van has moved away from a road snatching incident has happened.

Now we are encouraging police to use bikes and personal vehicles (four-wheelers) for patrolling. This would be in addition to bike-borne (Tiger Mobile) jawans and PCR vans on job on street.