PATNA: Police have so far arrested 10 criminals of a same gang and recovered Rs 1.09 crore of Rs 1.28 crore looted recently from three banks in Vaishali and Samastipur districts.
While Rs 1.19 crore was looted from Jadua branch of HDFC Bank in Hajipur on June 10, the rest of the amount was looted from Canara Bank’s Bikrampur Bande branch and SBI’s Tajpur branch in Samastipur district on April 29 and May 19, respectively.
Vaishali SP Maneesh said Rs 1.02 crore of Rs 1.19 crore looted from HDFC Bank has so far been recovered.
“Only two criminals associated with the gang – Golu and Indrasen Kumar – are to be arrested now.
Raids are on to nab them and recover the remaining money,” the SP said, adding prime accused Mukesh Ram and his wife Manisha Devi were arrested from Sahdullahpur under Sakra police station area in Muzaffarpur and Beladum under Baligaon police station area in Vaishali on Saturday night.
“The police recovered Rs 15.39 lakh in cash from their residences.
Of the recovered amount, Rs 14.04 lakh was looted from HDFC Bank,” the SP said.
SHO of Town police station Subodh Kumar Singh said Rs 10 lakh was recovered from Mukesh’s house at Sahdullahpur.
“The rest of the amount was recovered from Manisha’s parental house at Beladum.
A country-made pistol and two empty cartridges were also recovered from her residence,” he said.
Meanwhile, Samastipur SP Manavjit Singh Dhillon said of the 10 arrested so far in the three bank loot cases, Om Prakash and Rajiv Kumar alias Bulla were nabbed by Samastipur police.