Ranchi: Ranchi Police on Wednesday said they have seized an iron rod which they suspect was used to dig up an agriculture plot in Chandwe village in order to hide the head of a woman whose body was found naked and beheaded at a forest in Ormanjhi on January 3. The rod was recovered from Shiekh Bilal (who is the prime suspect in the case) house’s in Chandwe village, rural SP Naushad Alam said, adding that mud found on the rod is similar to one found in the plot where the head was buried.
Police found the woman’s head on Tuesday and are awaiting the DNA report to ascertain whether it belongs to the body that was found in Ormanjhi.
Ranchi Police nab 2 in ATM theft case of 2019 Out of Rs 4.07 cr booty, cash worth Rs 98 lakh recovered
Ranchi Police on Thursday arrested two aides of ATM custodians, who had stolen Rs 4.07 crore cash from the city, meant for 20 ATMs in December 2019.
They also recovered cash worth Rs 98 lakh, which is a portion of the stolen amount, from the two arrested men Rajkumar Srivastava and Prabhash Kumar.
Kumar and Srivastava, though not directly involved in the crime, had kept the amount in their possession.
“We had arrested the two prime accused in January 2020 itself and recovered more than Rs.2 crore cash from their possession,” said officer in-charge of Sadar Police Station Saryu Anand, adding that the two were already in jail for the crime.