30-05-2025
Highway robbers loot cash in Latehar
Daltonganj: Latehar police on Friday arrested a gang of five youths who not just looted cash from commuters on state highway but also robbed them of cold drinks and water bottles.
Addressing a press conference, SP Latehar Kumar Gaurav said, "Chhipadohar police, along with Garu police and a small action team of the India Reserve Battalion (IRB), recovered 156 boxes of cold drinks and 31 boxes of bottled water on Thursday — all looted from the stretch of state highway 9 under the Chhipadohar police station limits in the past weeks.
We also recovered Rs 4,50,000 cash from the five highway robbers."
Among the five nabbed, Hari Nandan (22) is from Latehar district, while the other four, namely Shubham (21), Dhiraj (21), Rohit (20), and Azad Ansari (23) belonged to Garhwa district. Police recovered nearly half a dozen four-wheelers that the culprits used in the commission of state highway hold-ups. Sources said this gang was operative over the last two weeks only when the police busted it and nabbed five of its members.
