BHOJPUR POLICE SEIZE CACHE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION, ARREST ONE MISCREANT

Ara, 8 May 2023, (RNI): Bhojpur police foiled bid of miscreants to commit crime and arrested a miscreant from Karnamepur police outpost area of Shahpur block in Bhojpur district and also seized one country made rifle, one country made gun and 68 live cartridges. A named FIR has been lodged with the police in this regard and the police are conducting raids to arrest the miscreants. Later the police sent the arrested miscreant to jail after interrogation.

Bhojpur SP Pramod Kumar Yadav said that a tonsure ceremony was to be solemnized in the area under Karnamepur police outpost of Shahpur block in Bhojpur district and some miscreants had conspired to attack on one another but the police got information on time. He immediately formed a Special Task Force (STF) under the Jagdishpur DSP Rajiv Chandra that conducted raid in the area. Seeding the police vehicle most of the miscreants fled away from the scene though the police arrested Dhan Jee Yadav son of Ashanand Yadav of Sonbarsha village under Karnamepur police outpost and seized one country made gun and 26 live cartridges from him. The police also conducted raid in the house of Sunil Mishra, leader of rival group, and seized country made rifle and 46 live cartridges from there though Sunil Mishra could not be arrested.

The SP further said that after the murder of the BJP State Vice-President Bisheshwar Ojha and later the murder of the main witness in his murder, Kamal Kishore Mishra, two groups, one led by Dhan Jee Yadav and other Sunil Mishra are on war front and tried to settle their score. He said that the arms are supposed to be made in Munger in Bihar and the police are trying to find out as to how these arms and ammunition were supplied in large number. He stated that the police are conducting raids to arrest the miscreants after identifying them.