Six more arrested with 750gm gold ornaments looted in Siwan town

PATNA: The Special Task Force (STF), with the help of Siwan police, arrested six more persons and recovered 750gm of gold ornaments looted from Archana Jewellers showroom under Town police station area in Siwan on September 20.
At least 8kg gold and 7kg silver jewellery worth more than Rs3.87 crore were looted by around ten armed criminals. The showroom owner, Subhash Soni, was shot at when he had attempted to resist the loot.
Siwan SP Abhinav Kumar on Sunday said those arrested are Sandeep Kumar Yadav, his father Bhagwan Yadav of Jiyyai, Ranjan Kumar of Barahani, Kundan Kumar alias Ravi Kushwaha of Ramnagar, all under Mufassil police station area, Deepu alias Praveen Kumar of village Tilsandi under Barharia police station area in Siwan district and Raju Rai of Mirzapur under Hathua police station area in Gopalganj district.
He said police recovered 440gm gold from Sandeep’s possession, 104gm from Ranjan, 33gm from Kundan, 20gm from Deepu, 85gm from Bhagwan and 69gm from Raju. “An illegal countrymade weapon was also recovered from Raju’s possession. A bike used in the crime has also been seized,” he said.
The SP said police, with the help of STF, had arrested four persons and recovered 5.105kg of gold ornaments within 12 hours of the loot. He said one more accused involved in the loot case was arrested from Guthani in Siwan while he was fleeing with a smuggled liquor.
Kumar said Sandeep, Mohammad Saddam of Mirganj in Gopalganj and one Sonu Kumar of Mufassil area in Siwan were the masterminds of the loot case.
“Initially, three to four persons had planned the loot. They conducted recce and found that the locality was crowded and they will need more associates for committing the loot,” he said.
The SP said they gathered more associates for the loot. He said a notorious criminal from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh had also been arrested for his involvement in the loot. He said at least half a dozen more suspects involved in the loot case were yet to be arrested.