Police raid house in Byndoor, confiscate illegal supply of firecrackers worth Rs 4 lakh
Kundapur: Byndoor Police seized firecrackers worth Rs 4 lakh from a house in Kanchikan of Uppunda, Byndoor taluk, on Wednesday, after the locals complained that the resident of the house, Dattatreya Shet, had an illegal stock of firecrackers.
Shet had been selling firecrackers during Ganesh Chaturthi and Diwali festivals for several years. The locals told the Byndoor Police that Shet has stocked up firecrackers without official permission, following which, the officers conducted the raid on Shet’s residence on Wednesday.
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The police found a variety of crackers in Shet’s house, including gelatin sticks, which were stocked up illegally. The confiscated crackers are estimated to be worth more than Rs 4 lakh.
A case has been filed at the Byndoor Police Station and the officers are investigating the matter further.
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
