Dhanbad police arrested six persons of a vehicle lifters’ gang and recovered a pickup van, motorcycle, a toy pistol and five mobile phones from them.

The arrested persons during the police interrogation accepted their involvement in a recent pickup van loot incident that took place in Govindpur area on the night of July 13.

Sharing details with media, Sanjeev Kumar, Senior Superintendent of Police of Dhanbad said, “The arrested criminals on July 13 looted a pick up van from near the Mahindra Showroom of Govindpur by attacking and injuring the driver of the pick-up van.”

“We constituted a special team under the leadership of Amar Pandey, DSP Govindpur, comprising of others including the officer in charge of Govindpur Gangasagar Ojha and the team working to the tip off first arrested three persons including, Rohit Kumbhkar, Rahul Kumbhkar and Rahul Kumar from Govindpur area,” said Kumar and added that the trio revealed the entire modus operandi of their gang.

Based on the information provided by them, police also arrested three remaining persons of the gang, including, Jitendra Rawani, Sikandar Kumar Sao and Sanjay Kumar Sharma.

“All the six criminals had criminal antecedents and while one of them, Rahul Kumar, was involved in the incident of rape, others, including Jitendra Rawani and Sikankar Kumar Sao are accused of robbery and illicit liquor trade etc,” said Kumar and added that gang has only six members, all of which have been arrested by police.