ABSCONDING MISCREANT ARRESTED

Ara, 15 June 2023, (RNI): Bhojpur police arrested a miscreant from a restaurant at Dhanupur locality under Ara town police station in Bhojpur district. The arrested miscreant is identified as Dheeraj Pandey son of a dreaded sand mafia Satyendra Pandey. He was wanted in a case related to hatching conspiracy to commit dacoity.

Bhojpur SP Pramod Kumar Yadav said that he had information that some miscreants were hatching plan to commit robbery at Kamaluchak Sand Ghat under Koelwar police station in Bhojpur district on April 4, 2023. A police conducted raids and arrested nine persons in this regard at that time and had seized firearms and live cartridges from the area though Dheeraj Pandey along with his father Satyendra Pandey, brothers Neeraj Pandey and Chhotu and other miscreants had escaped. Since the police were conducting raids to arrest them. Meanwhile, the police got information that Dheeraj Pandey took shelter at a restaurant at Dhanupur locality under Ara town police station. The SP at once sent a police team under the ASP Chandra Prakash and the police team conducted raid at the restaurant and arrested Dheeraj Pandey. The SP stated that he was wanted in a number of cases.

SP said that Satyendra Kumar Pandey of Pachrukhia village under Koelwar police station and his family members have a long criminal history and they are regular visitors of jail. Satyendra Pandey is a dreaded Sand mafia of Bhojpur district and runs a gang and his gang is embroiled in tussle with other groups of sand mafias for establishing their supremacy on the sand gahts and they always exchanged fire.

Only last year, two groups of sand mafias namely Satyendra Pandey and Videshy Rai had exchanged fire to capture a sand ghat in January 2022 in which two persons had died. Four sons of Satyendra Pandey and brother have criminal history. His son Ankit Pandey is including in the top ten list of criminals and was sent to jail last year. Satyendra Pandey and his brother Sanjay Pandey is out of the jail on bail but his two sons Ankit Pandey who was already in the jail and now Dheeraj Pandey was also sent to jail though his two sons are at large.