KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Sept 7: Though over 24 hours have elapsed since a team of police officials from the steel city rushed to Dhanbad for unraveling the mystery behind the August 18 robbery in the Bank of India’s Ulidih branch at Mango, the team seems to have made a little progress in the investigation.
The little progress the Jamshedpur police have made so far is that it has established that one of the motorcycles recovered from the crime scene near Muthoot Finance office in Dhanbad is registered with the East Singhbhum District Transport Office in the name of Sudama Kalta.
Kalta is a peon in the DBMS English School at Kadma.
OC, Kadma thana, Ashok Ram said they had got a message from the Dhanbad police for finding out the name and whereabouts of a motorcycle recovered from Muthoot Finance office in Dhanbad on Tuesday.
“The owner of the bike in question is Sudama Kalta, a peon in the DBMS English School. But the actual owner of the bike presently is Ganga Gope, resident of Chaibasa, ” said Ram while talking to lagatar24.com.
The Kadma OC pointed out that Sudama had sold out the bike to Ganga 10 days ago but is yet to get it
transferred in Ganga’s name. He said that he has already replied back to the Dhanbad police giving the details about Ganga Gope.
Significantly, sources in the police revealed that the two dacoits who survived the police action in Dhanbad are learnt to have divulged that the robbery at the Ulidih branch was committed by the same gang but neither of them was involved.
Sources quoted the two dacoits as saying that it is an inter-state gang and the gang members are not allowed to carry a mobile phone.
Interestingly, the senior police officers here are tight-lipped about the investigation into the post-attempted robbery in Dhanbad. Though the team from the steel city is anchored at Dhanbad, expecting the two dacoits to spill the beans, but nothing seems to have come up yet.
A gang of armed robbers had swooped over the Muthoot Finance office to rob gold ornaments, but the Dhanbad police succeeded in smartly foiling the robbery, but also in gunning down one of criminals and arresting two others.
Notably, the Jamshedpur police team is presently anticipating a breakthrough in the Ulidih bank robbery involving over Rs one crore because the modus operandi of the two criminal acts was the same.
