Bihar: STF arrests two notorious criminals accused in several murders with arms and ammunitions in Purnia

PATNA: A team of special task force (STF) nabbed two notorious criminals each carrying a reward of Rs 50000 from near their hideout inside maize fields at Siswan Maujampatti village under Raghuvansh Nagar police outpost in Purnia on wee hours of Sunday.
The arrested criminals are Bhushan Yadav (40) and Akhilesh Kumar Yadav (35). Both are natives of the same village from where they got arrested.
STF sources said two country-made pistols, five live cartridges, two cellphones and a bike was seized from their possession.
They said both were accused in at least a dozen of murder cases in Purnia alone besides having separate cases of loot and extortion against them.
The duo is also suspected to be involved in the brutal killing of an accountant of a brick kiln in the village on January 26 this year. Police said they had cut him into pieces and threw body parts inside the burning kiln.
Raghuvansh Nagar police outpost in-charge Mahadeo Kamat said Bhushan had arch enmity with one Bucchan Yadav (58) of the same village for three decades.
“Bhushan suspected Bucchan had killed his father three decades back. Since then, Bhushan has been running a gang to take revenge from Buchhan. Akhilesh later joined Bhushan’s gang after his three relatives were together killed by Bucchan’s gang in March 2019,” he said.
Kamat said Bhushan and his gang members had attacked Bucchan’s convoy with bombs when they were returning home after inaugurating a programme on occasion of Saraswati puja in 2019.
“Bucchan’s one leg was blown. His son Saurav Yadav (27), driver, bodyguard and several others were injured in the attack. Buchhan died in course of treatment after a few days from infection. The triple murder of Akhilesh’s relative was in retaliation of attack on Bucchan. Saurav started running the gang but STF arrested him from Patna,” he said adding there were 25 murder cases against Bucchan besides having several other criminal cases.
Kamat said that Bhushan’s associate Arun Yadav was also shot dead on February 12, 2019 by Bucchan’s gang.
“Arun’s wife was shot dead on January 6 this year before she was to depose before court. Within an hour, Bhushan, Akhilesh and his associates shot dead Bucchan’s aide Rukhisi Yadav,” he said.
Kamat said Bhushan and Akhilesh are cold blooded and cruel killers. “Brick kiln, whose accountant was killed, was of Bhucchan but now owned by his wife Neelam Devi. She is mukhiya of Gauripur panchayat in Raghuvansh Nagar,” Kamat said. He said if the duo would not have been arrested, they could have committed major crime before or during the panchayat election.