Unidentified men fire at site in-charge of outsourcing co, hurl bomb in Dhanbad

Sindri: While the Dhanbad district administration and police are busy containing the Covid surge, criminals are making their presence felt at regular intervals in the coal capital of the country.
The latest incident took place at Sudamdih on Saturday where two bike-borne masked criminals fired at the manager of an outsourcing company and hurled a bomb demanding extortion money. The manager escaped with minor injuries but the incident has once again exposed the failure of the police in reigning in extortion gangs active in the district.
According to reports, someone knocked at the doors of Sudamdih riverside BCCL colony residence of Madhu Singh, the site in-charge of outsourcing company Dhansar Engineering and Company (DECo) at 5.30am. When he opened the door, he found two masked youths wearing black shirts who gave him a letter saying that it had been sent by Aman Singh. When he asked who Singh is, the youth fired at him but it could not hurt him as he ducked and tried to close the door. By that time, the youth fired the second shot which hit the door panel after touching his right shoulder. The criminals hurled a country-made bomb while fleeing to scare away the colony people.
Sudamdih police recovered one live cartridge, one spent cartridge and vestiges of the country made bomb from the spot. Dhanbad SP (city) R Ramkumar, SDPO Sindri Ajit Sinha visited the spot and said the police were investigating the incident from different angles.
It can be noted here that Aman Singh is a prime accused in former Deputy Mayor Neeraj Singh’s murder case and is languishing in Ranchi jail. It is said that he is running an extortion racket from behind the bars and outsourcing companies and big businessmen are buying peace by paying hefty amounts of extortion money to his men in the coalfield. More than two dozen cases of firing and hurling bombs for collecting extortion are under investigation of Dhanbad police.