Location Kaushambi Correspondent Shravan Tiwari 20 thousand looted from a grocery shopkeeper in broad daylight in Kaushambi, one miscreant injured and arrested in an encounter at night, another absconding There was chaos in Kumhiyawan village under Mahevaghat police station area of Kaushambi district on Friday when two motorcycle-borne miscreants fled after looting 20 thousand rupees from a grocery merchant. As soon as the information was received, there was a stir in the police department. Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar took the incident seriously and immediately alerted the police across the district and instructed for intensive checking by setting up barriers at all the police stations. On the complaint of the victim shopkeeper Lalchand Kesharwani, resident of Kumhiyawan, a case was registered against unknown miscreants in Mahevaghat police station. After the incident, the police and field unit team inspected the spot and intensified the campaign to search for the robbers. On the night of 18 and 19 July, Pipri police station police was checking suspicious vehicles. Then information was received that the criminals involved in the robbery of Kumhiyawan have fled towards this area. The joint police team of Pipri police station in-charge Siddharth Singh and Mahevaghat police station in-charge Bhanu Pratap Singh started the siege on Lodhour-Rasoolpur Buer road. After some time, seeing a suspicious motorcycle coming, the police signaled to stop. In response, the bike-riding criminals started firing at the police and started running. The police team also retaliated in self-defense. During the encounter, a criminal got shot in the leg and he fell from the bike and was caught, while his partner took advantage of the darkness and escaped. The arrested criminal has been identified as Dhanraj son of Nandlal, a resident of Karari. During police interrogation, he admitted that he, along with his maternal uncle’s son, had looted Rs 20,000 from a grocery shopkeeper in Kumhiyawan. Not only this, he also confessed to the incident of snatching Mangalsutra from a woman at Makhuppur Tiraha a month ago. Police recovered a 315 bore pistol, two live cartridges, two empty cartridges, looted money and a stolen bike from him. The injured criminal has been admitted to the district hospital Manjhanpur for treatment. The police team has secured the crime scene and called the field unit and collected necessary evidence. Police teams are continuously raiding possible hideouts in search of the absconding criminal. Chail CO Abhishek Singh said that the second accused will also be arrested soon.
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