BHOJPUR POLICE ARREST A DREADED CRIMINAL

BHOJPUR POLICE ARREST A DREADED CRIMINAL

22-OCT-ENG 3

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA----------------------Bhojpur police arrested a dreaded criminal from near P. Mega Mart at Koelwar Nagar Panchayat under Koelwar police station in Bhojpur district and sent him to jail after interrogation in connection with double murder case. The miscreant was identified as Amresh Rai alias Videshi Rai son of Ram Pujan Rai of Mahadevchak Semaria village under Koelwar police station. He was wanted in a number of criminal cases including loot, extortion, Arms Act and also for gang war for illegal sand mining. After his arrest, Bhojpur police heaved a sigh of relief.

Bhojpur SP Mister Raj said that the police got information that a history-sheeter Amresh Rai alis Videshi Rai of Mahadevchak Semaria village under Koelwar police station had come to his P Mega Mart at Koelwar Nagar Panchayat. He at once formed a police team and the police tem seized the P Mega Mart at once and arrested Amresh Rai alias Videshi Rai from there. Later the police sent him to jail after interrogation.

The SP further said that Amresh Rai alias Videshi Rai is involved in illegal sand mining from the river Sone and also very much active in establishing his supremacy in the area and in the process, he was made named accused in over one dozen criminal cases including murder, loot, extortion, Arms Act. Police were hunting to arrest him for quite some time. Recently, the Koelwar police had sent a proposal for book him under the Crime Control Act (CCA) but in the meantime, he was arrested.

The SP stated that he was also arrested earlier from Ramgarh in Jharkhand with the help of STF in connection with another double murder case at Kamaluchak Sand Ghat under Koelwar police station in Bhojpur district in the year 2021 and was put behind bar but after his release on bail, he once again indulged in his profession. And this time, he was wanted in double murder case at Gadahia Sand Ghat on May 1, 2024 night. Two persons under Doriganj police station of Saran district were killed. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Koelwar police station against the groups of Satyendra Pandey and Guddu Rai and the police arrested at least a dozen persons of both the groups and sent them to jail. The police have submitted charge-Sheet against him in about half a dozen cases in the court