The police today claimed to have cracked nine unsolved incidents of crime in the steel city after it busted a criminal gang, led by an alleged "psychopathic killer".
DIG (Kolhan) Md Nehal and East Singhbhum Senior Superintendent of Police Amol V Homkar told a press conference here that the gang led by Anjan Kumar Shukla, a policeman currently under suspension, was involved in nine criminal cases, including the murder of an Assistant General Manager of Tata Motors Brajesh Sahay, on February 22 last.
All the criminal acts committed by the gang was "unwarranted, unproved, unplanned and uncalled for", Nehal said claiming that Shukla had a "abnormal criminal behaviour".
Nehal claimed that the busting of the gang was a case study for the police department as all the accused had no past criminal antecedents nor did they have any particular modus operandi.
The gang was also involved in the killing of a Tata Steel officer Ratnesh Raj in March, attack on former Lawn Tennis coach Vipul Kumar in November last, firing at two young Sikh engineers on June 15 and gunning down of a former armyman Lalit Kumar in December last, they said.
While Shukla was suspended on charges of dereliction of duty, one of his accomplice was an employee of Tata Motors, Nehal said.
As the criminals hardly left any clue at the scene of the crimes, Homkar said a special police team was formed to investigate them and he himself reviewed the findings with the help of a special "crime analysis software".
Nehal said the investigating officers then found a common link in all the criminal offences that had taken place in the last six/seven months period in the city.
