The accused mostly used to target houses, especially quarters which were locked from outside. The gang members first used to conduct recee during the day time and barge into houses from various conservancy lanes
During interrogation, Ashirbad told the police that he had orchestrated the ransom plot to divert the police investigation.
Juhi Kumari and Shanti Kumari were guarding the Gramin Bank in Sendhuari block when three robbers arrived on two bikes. They entered the bank and tried to snatch the rifles of the women constables with an intention to rob the bank.
Police have also seized the Innova used in the crime, reports said. All the three accused are drivers by profession.
Wasi Mohammad had married Uma Sharma, seven years ago.
The police have recovered 18 pieces of the victim's body from different places.
The deceased has been identified as Anirudha Nayak of Krushnaprasad village, who died on the spot after sustaining injuries caused by 10 rounds of firing.
Earlier, police had recovered Amrit's bicycle from a bamboo bush located near a pond in the village.
The student was stable undergoing treatment at the Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital.
The deceased was in the habit of stealing goats from his neighbour Batakrushna Dehury’s goat pen.
The accused allegedly chopped off his 15-year-old son's hands and threw them in a 400-feet deep borewell. He then strangled the boy and dumped the body in some bushes close to a field, he said.
Blackmailing and threatening cases are on rise especially among youngsters. There has been an uptick in sextortion cases.
The victim succumbed to her burn injuries after battling for her life for six days in the hopsital.
Tension ran high in Balianta area on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Thursday after family members of a woman from Sareikela area of Jharkhand gheraoed the local police station alleging that she was murdered by her in-laws at Ranga Bazaar in Balianta.
The bereaved family members along with hundreds of villagers and members of Utkal Janai Sangha took out a rally today morning and marched towards the police station. After arriving at the police station, they staged a demonstration demanding action against the in-laws of the deceased.