Jamshedpur police arrest seven persons associated with Akhilesh Singh gang

Jamshedpur, May 11: Police on Monday arrested seven persons associated with the gangster Akhilesh Singh gang from different places in the city on Monday. During the arrest made from different localities, including Burmamines, Bagbera and Birsanagar, the recovered three pistols and also ammunition from their possession.� Those arrested were identified as Ankit Kumar, �Binod Kumar Singh, Jaydeep alias Bobby, Durga Rao, Mintu Prasad, Raju Dera and Rajesh Singh.� The police arrested all these persons after launching a drive to bring an end to the gangwar in the city following a firing incident between the Akhilesh Singh gang and Sudhir Dubey gang at Sitaramdera on April 29.

Akhilesh is accused in more than two dozen cases of grievous crime. The prominent cases in which he was wanted, include murder of shoe baron Ashish �Dey, murder of Tata Steel security inspector Jairam Singh, murder of gangster Paramjeet Singh inside Ghaghidih Central Jail, the jailer Uma Shanker Pandey murder case in which he has already been sentenced to life imprisonment and kidnapping and murder of mobile merchant Om Prakas Kabra.�

The don stepped into the crime world by abducting the merchant Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001.� After his name figured in the Kabra abduction case, he had surrendered in the court on August 6, 2001.� He fled the judicial custody on February 18, 2002.� He was arrested from Varanasi on October 7, 2004. � � � � � �