The police on Sunday claimed to have cracked nine unsolved incidents of crime in the steel city after it busted a criminal gang, led by an alleged "psychopathic killer".
DIG (Kolhan) Md Nehal and East Singhbhum Senior Superintendent of Police Amol V Homkar told a press conference here that the gang led by Anjan Kumar Shukla, a policeman currently under suspension, was involved in nine criminal cases, including the murder of an Assistant General Manager of Tata Motors Brajesh Sahay, on February 22 last.
All the criminal acts committed by the gang was "unwarranted, unproved, unplanned and uncalled for", Nehal said claiming that Shukla had a "abnormal criminal behaviour".
Nehal claimed that the busting of the gang was a case study for the police department as all the accused had no past criminal antecedents nor did they have any particular modus operandi.
The gang was also involved in the killing of a Tata Steel officer Ratnesh Raj in March, attack on former Lawn Tennis coach Vipul Kumar in November last, firing at two young Sikh engineers on June 15 and gunning down of a former armyman Lalit Kumar in December last, they said.
While Shukla was suspended on charges of dereliction of duty, one of his accomplice was an employee of Tata Motors, Nehal said.
As the criminals hardly left any clue at the scene of the crimes, Homkar said a special police team was formed to investigate them and he himself reviewed the findings with the help of a special "crime analysis software".
Nehal said the investigating officers then found a common link in all the criminal offences that had taken place in the last six/seven months period in the city. The police then detected a mobile phone through which
the gang members demanded rupees 20 lakh ransom from the owner of an engineering company at Gadra on the intervening night of July 21-22.
The special police team, which had already started keeping vigil on the activities of Shukla, who was living in the Police line in Golmuri here, arrested him and his accomplices from Parsudih and Telco police stations and interrogated them.
Shukla and his accomplices broke down during a rigorous interrogation and confessed their crimes, Nehal said.
Shukla wanted to establish a "Pandit Gang" (Gang of Priests) and committed crimes targetting the rich moving around in luxury cars, the DIG said.
The sole purpose of the gang was to extort money from rich as Shukla was carrying a grudge against rich particularly after he was once beaten up by a car owner following a petty incident few years ago and also implicated in a rape case, the DIG said.
Shukla told that police that he had no intention to kill Sahay and Raj but they were killed as they came on their way when they were chasing other persons on cars.
Besides Shukla, the other persons arrested were Manish Pandey, Mangal Tiwary and Kanhaiya Jha.
Three pistols, nine live cartridges, mobile phone with sim, Shukla's identity card and other documents, fake identity card and two motorcycles were seized from their possession.
The police officers said all the police personnel involved in cracking the case would be rewarded.
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