Several residents staged a protest against the Hathras rape case in Bokaro.

Members of All India Democratic Youth Organization burnt effigy demanding death sentence against the accused in Siwandih.

A protester said the accused should be hanged till death.

Rs 91.35 lakh seized from car

Dhanbad police on Wednesday seized cash worth Rs 91.35 lakh from a car travelling towards Asansol in West Bengal from Gaya in Bihar.

Police brought the four people travelling in the car to Barawaddah police station for further interrogation.

Rs 3.5 lakh stolen from bank counter

Cash worth Rs 3.5 lakh was stolen from the cash counter of State Bank of India, Jharia Bazar branch on Monday afternoon.

The incident took place, when Koiribandh resident, Sanjay Harijan, withdrew the money his father’s account and handed over the money to a bank employee to be deposited in his own account and left the counter. The employee left the money on the counter unattended for a brief time. When he returned to the counter he found the money missing and immediately informed the bank manager, who in turn informed Jharia police.

8 discharged from Covid centres

A total of eight Covid patients were discharged on Wednesday from Zonal Training Institute of Railway in Bhuli.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Uma Shankar Singh said that the discharged patients have been provided health kits and asked to remain in home quarantine for next 14 days.

Singh said the paid isolation facility available at Wedlock Greens Hotel will end from September 30 at the request of Hotel authorities.

The paid isolation facility in King's Resort at Govindpur will continue.

Stern warning against encroachment

Sub Divisional officer of Dhanbad who visited the heavily congested Purana Bazar locality expressed serious concern over the encroachment in the market and instructed shop keepers to remove them at the earliest.

The officer instructed the shop keepers to maintain social distance in view of upcoming festive season and added that a Covid testing camp will be organised for them.

Plasma donation at PMCH

Three people donated plasma at the PMCH blood bank based plasma therapy centre on Wednesday.

Dhanbad deputy commissioner, Uma Shankar Singh said that people are gradually coming forward to donate plasma and on October 1 a total of 20 people will be donating their plasma.

Arun Kumar Sao, a police constable and Dhanbad’s first plasma donor was felicitated on Wednesday.

Life imprisonment to husband convicted of murder

Ramgarh District Judge awarded life imprisonment on Wednesday to Naresh Mahto for poisoning his wife to death.

On September 24, the court convicted the accused husband on the basis of evidence.

Janaki Mahto, the father of the deceased, had lodged an FIR against his son-in-law at Patratu police station in connection with the death of his daughter. He had mentioned in his FIR that his daughter was killed by poisoning, for not giving Rs 50,000 as dowry.

After registering an FIR, the Patratu police found poison in the SFL investigation report of the deceased.

Accident on NH-33 in Ramgarh

The overturned truck in Ramgarh on Wednesday. Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar

A truck carrying jaggery from Raipur to Patna overturned on the state's highway (NH-33) near Patel chowk in Ramgarh on Wednesday injuring the driver and cleaner.

The driver Ravindra Kumar steered the vehicle to a safer side after realising the brakes had failed.

Ravindra and his co-passenger Pankaj Kumar sustained injuries but are out of danger.