Bokaro: While returning home after worshiping from Tarapith, two four wheelers on the way uncontrollably collided with a tree. Two people have died and has been identified as Akhil Singh and Vikas Gupta. Five passengers in the vehicle were injured in the incident in which driver Birbal Sonar is seriously injured and injured are being treated. All of them belong to Bokaro thermal police station area Jarangdih in Bokaro district.

The road accident took place this morning near Surichua village on the Rampurhat-Dumka road on the Birbhum-Jharkhand border. Pilgrims were returning to Jalangi in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district after worshiping Mother Tara in a four-wheeled vehicle from Tarapith in Birbhum district of West Bengal this morning. The driver lost control near Sunichua village and collided with a tree on the side of the road.

In this accident, a passenger named Akhil Singh died on the spot, while the other six passengers were seriously injured. Rampurhat Police and Rampurhat Fire Brigade reached the spot as soon as the news of the accident was received. Firefighters rescued the injured from vehicles and took them to Rampurhat Medical College Hospital. During this, another passenger Vikas Gupta also died. In this incident, two of the seven passengers died and five were injured and one is in good condition.

(EW Correspondent) 

Ranchi: Army Intelligence has exposed the case of duping dozens of youths of Rs.1.25 crore in the name of army recruitment. In this case, Ranchi’s Namkum police is interrogating three people, including Pankaj Kumar Singh (father-Dharmanath Singh, Chandni Chowk, Jagarnathpur), while the main kingpin of the fraud, Shaukat Ali, is absconding. For whose arrest the police are raiding. The youths who have been cheated are residents of other states including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra.

According to the victims, it was found through the agent that there would be a direct medical examination without running. After that there will be joining, for which 5 lakh rupees were given per youth. The youths were called for medical, where the medical was taken in a closed room, the youth got suspicious. Said that due to corona, investigation is not being done in the hospital. When he reached with the joining letter, he got information about being cheated.

Arrested Pankaj has been jailed in the past in fraud case in the name of recruitment in army. In the past too, dozens of youths of Bokaro, Simdega, Dhanbad, Gumla have been jailed from Jagarnathpur police station on 23 February 2020 in a cheating case of two crore rupees in the name of army recruitment. In this case 91/20, 92/20 case was registered. Pankaj is fond of expensive vehicles. There are offices in many places. Pankaj Singh has been doing the work of duping innocent youth in the name of job for the last many years. He is fond of expensive cars. He has two expensive cars.

Offices have been opened at different places to cheat the youth. The business of duping the youth is widespread. By showing the youth the promise of a job in the army, they have done 60 lakh transactions in 9 months in many different bank accounts. Most of the transactions have been done in the accounts of Gopi Sharma (ICICI Bank), Sushil Tiwari (HDFC Bank), Manish Kumar (Union Bank), Pankaj Kumar Singh (Axis and ICICI Bank) and Rohit Kumar.

(EW Reporter) 

Hazaribagh, In a joint action executed by Hazaribagh and Koderma police, a dozen members of inter state vehicle lifting gang have been arrested and a total of six vehicles have been recovered from them.

Six of these vehicle lifters were nabbed by Hazaribagh police while other six were arrested by Koderma Police.
Those who were arrested by Hazaribagh police included Vicky Kumar, Rajkumar Chowdhary alias Munna, Shivshankar Prasad Gupta, Sandeep Kumar, Naushad Ansari and Santosh Bhuiyaan.

While Koderma police caught Maqbool Ansari, Sisikesh, Rakesh Kumar Pandey alias Roshan Pandey, Sunil Kumar Paswan, NunuMuni Sao and Bansi Verma.

In a joint press conference Hazaribagh SP Kartik S and Koderma SP Ehtesham Waquarib detailed regarding the arrests made. The Hazaribagh SP said a joint team of Chouparan and Barhi Police arrested six vehicle lifters and during questioning they revealed the names of their associates.

He said that later the information was shared with Koderma SP who managed to arrest six more culprits. The arrested have confessed that the stolen vehicles were sold to one Rakesh Pandey of Koderma.

(Agencies)

Ranchi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that protecting the children who have been orphaned due to Coronavirus is priority for the state government.

Virtually practicing in Project Sishu organised by Jhalsa he said that rehabilitation of such children was a very sensitive and touching gesture. He said that the initiative taken in this regard by the state government and Jhalsa was a commendable one. He said that it was a moral responsibility of all to protect the future of such children who have lost their both parents due to the deadly virus.

The Chief Minister said that amid the pandemic the government took many steps to ensure that life and livelihood are protected. He said that many organisations and people have extended their support to the state government in the pandemic. The Chief Minister said that the state government is taking necessary measures to overcome the challenges.

(Agencies)