Operation Ankush : Notorious absconding robber Ratan Lakra was caught by Jashpur police, along with his accomplices, he had carried out three consecutive robbery incidents in Jashpur district by showing a gun
Jashpur: The brief description of the case is as follows that on 14.04.25 the applicant Prakash Gupta, resident of Saraitoli, Police Station Bagicha had lodged a report at Police Station Bagicha that he had gone to the weekly market of Marol to buy grains, that at about 1.30 in the afternoon when he was alone at the shop,At the same time, three unknown persons came on an Apache motorcycle and two of them showed him a country-made pistol and fled after robbing his money bag containing Rs. 46,700 and his mobile phone.
Similarly, on the same day, applicant Satish Yadav, a resident of Ferozepur who works for US Agro Seed Company, also filed a report at Bagicha Police Station that he had gone to Gurmakona village, Bagicha Police Station early in the morning for company work.
At the same time, three unknown persons came on a motorcycle and, showing a pistol, took away Rs. 1800 kept in her purse and also took away her mobile phone.Based on the report, a case was registered at Police Station Bagicha for robbery under Sections 309(4) of the BNS and 25,27 of the Arms Act, and investigation was taken up. Similarly, in village Alori Sonkaria, about Rs. 45,000 were robbed from a businessman at gunpoint.The report of which was registered in Sonkaryari Police Station. Taking the incident of three consecutive robberies seriously, five police teams were formed under the leadership of Senior Superintendent of Police Jashpur Shri Shashi Mohan Singh to trace and arrest the accused.
One of the accused in the case American Pankra has been arrested and sent to jail on judicial remand and the other accused Dhaneshwar involved in the robbery has been arrested by Korba Police.
On the information given by the previously arrested accused American Pankra, Jashpur police was continuously searching for the third accused of robbery, Ratan Lakra. Three police teams were formed by Senior Superintendent of Police Jashpur, Shri Shashi Mohan Singh, to trace and arrest the absconding accused Ratan.And the informer system was activated, along with this the help of police's technical team was also being taken. The accused robber Ratan Lakra was so clever that he kept changing his location frequently to deceive the police, the police was continuously tracing him.
