Daltonganj: A two-member team of the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of the state police questioned six members of an organised crime syndicate in jail here. Palamu SP Reeshma Ramesan on Monday informed that the six accused have confessed to police that they were working for the dreaded gangster, Sujit Sinha.
The arrested are Ashfak Khan (25), Kush Kumar Yadav (21), Deepak Kumar Bhuiyan (30), Gulshan Kumar Vishwakarma (22), Aashif Ahmad alias Raja Khan (22), a street play actor, and Farhan Qureishi (24).
The SP said, “All six arrested are part of an organised crime and also work for the gangster. Hence, the ATS came down here from Ranchi to question them.”
Ramesan informed that except for Farhan Qureishi, who faces one Arms Act case and attempted assault on a maha Dalit, police have no records of criminal history for the other five. “Farhan Qureishi had met a pointsman of gangster Sujit Sinha when he was in the central jail here and he started working for the gang. Farhan then recruited Ashfak Khan and the others followed gradually,” he said.
The gangster recruits young individuals to avoid police detection. The accused said they were planning to intimidate workers by firing in the air at Karso stone crushing plant in Chainpur on December 1.
The SP said, “The accused told the police that the owner of the Karso stone crusher plant was delaying payment of extortion and they were planning to intimidate him.”