Hazaribagh: A special investigation team formed by superintendent of police Karthik S. arrested five persons from Ranchi in the ancient idols theft case.

The white sandstone idols were stolen on March 20.

The 1200 years-old idols were found by the Archaeological Survey of India at Bahoranpur, 10kms away from Hazaribagh town.

S.P. Karthik S, DC Aditya Kumar Anand in Hazaribagh on Thursday. Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar

Karthik said during investigation, police caught Kumar Sujit Singh from Ranchi who named Sanjay Agarwal for transporting the idols to Ranchi. Police rounded up Agarwal who confirmed that idols kept in the house of one his friend Yatindra Kumar at Booty More in Ranchi. Within no time, idols were recovered and Yatindra arrested.

Karthik said they had also recovered three mobiles from the arrested five.

(Vishvendu Jaipuriar)

Ramgarh car showroom suffers massive losses after fire

Flames engulfs showroom in Ramgarh Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar

Ramgarh: A fire broke out at a Maruti car showroom in Ramgarh and damaged items worth lakhs.

One of the employees, Sudeep Kumar who had a narrow escape said all of a sudden he spotted fire and smoke in the room in which he was sleeping. Firefighters later doused the flames.

Ramgarh police officials said the fire started because of a short circuit in the morning.

(Vishvendu Jaipuriar)

DPS Bokaro students crack JEE Mains

Bokaro: Around 60 students have cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 in the district, majority of them from Delhi Public School.

According to the information shared by schools, Varun Tandon of Delhi Public School, Bokaro topped the school with 99.79 percentile. Tandon has scored highest in the district.

Around 50 students of DPS have secured more than 90 percentile in the JEE Main for March Session. Dev Jyoti (99.32), Amisha Singh (99.31), Anurag Ranjan (99.11), Aditya Ray Mishra(98.71), Rahul Dev (98.54), Aditya Kumar (98.45), Shreya Shree (98.32), Ayush Kumar (98.19), Aryan (98.18), Niranjan Verma (98.17) are few DPS students who scored 98 and above percentile in the JEE Main examination.

A.S. Gangwar, principal of DPS Bokaro said,“the results are satisfactory, but we do hope for better results in the upcoming exams.” Gangawar extended his best wishes to the students for the forthcoming exams.

Director of Sree Ayyappa Public School, S.S. Mahapatra said they yet have come through the names of 10 students who cracked JEE Main. But still, they are in process of compiling names. Of those who qualified, five students have bagged more than 90 percentile. Till Thursday evening, except DPS, the majority of other famed schools did not officially declare the numbers and names of their students who cracked the prestigious JEE Main examination in this session. Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Sanjeev Kumar said they are in process of collecting details. Pentecostal School Assembly is also in process of compiling names of the successful students. Many schools are yet to declare the names.

(Our Correspondent)

Family feud leads to lynching of 70-year-old in Chatra

The gutted house in Chatra Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar

Chatra: A 70-year-old man was beaten to death during a fight between two families on Thursday night in Khirgadda village under Charu panchayat of Rajpur police station in Chatra district.

According to police sources the families sparred because of a land dispute, an issue for almost 30 years between them. A house with a sugarcane unit was also gutted by fire during the incident.

Officer-in-charge of Rajpur police, Anil Kumar, reached the spot and brought the situation under control following which police officers are camping in the area to prevent any untoward incidents.

(Vishvendu Jaipuriar)