Tag: Doranda

Police nab 11 men of dreaded Srivastava gang.

Source – telegraphindia.com

Police on Tuesday arrested 11 men from Ranchi and ` who the cops said used to extort money from coal traders coming to different collieries of the state.

Seven firearms with 70 rounds of ammunition, five motorbikes and 12 mobile phones were recovered from their possession, South Chotanagpur deputy inspector-general of police (DIG) A.V Homkar told the media during a news meet at his office in Doranda.

The DIG said all the 11 arrested men were associated with the Aman Shrivastava gang, active for the last several months in the business of extortion.

“Those arrested are Mukesh Kumar Sao, Mahmood MIyan, Mahmood Alam, Razaque Ansari, Sourabh Sinha, Amarjit Paswan, Qurban Ansari, Sudarshan Nayak, Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Ganjhu and Ankit Kishore Nath Shahi. Out of seven firearms recovered from their possession, there were three 9mm pistols, one 7.62mm pistol and three country-made single-shot small guns,” DIG Homkar said.

Asked how the breakthrough came, Homkar said: “The breakthrough came after a SIT (special investigation team) comprising superintendents of police of Ranchi, Latehar, Ramgarh and Hazaribah was constituted after getting regular information of extortion calls to coal traders in Latehar and neighbouring districts. Raids were conducted. The first catch was Mukesh Kumar Saw, who disclosed the names and addresses of the other accused. Sao is a notorious criminal and is accused in as many as nine cases of extortion and Arms Act registered against him in Hazaribagh and Latehar.”

Asked about the kingpin, DIG Homkar said: “Kingpin Aman Shrivastava is yet to be arrested. He is the brother of Sushil Srivastava, who has already been killed in a gang war.”

Asked if extortion money had been recovered from the possession of the 11 arrested men, Homkar replied in the negative.

He shared details of some of the crimes the gang had committed in 2018 and 2019.

“The gang in December last had opened fire on Ravi Ganjhu in Chandwa. In the same month, the gang had shot dead Yugal Ganjhu, a coal trader. In July last year the gang had injured an engineer of Hardeb Construction Company at Urimari in Latehar.”

Free wi-fi zones in Ranchi from November

Source: telegraphindia.com

As many as 10 busy areas of the state capital, including places like Main Road, Morabadi and Doranda, will have free wi-fi zones from November.

The private agency hired by telecom major BSNL is about to complete a survey of the areas after which the City Wi-fi project of the state IT and e-governance department will rollout.

According to sources in the district administration, hotspots would be set up at Sadar Hospital (on Main Road), State Guest house (Morabadi), Collectorate Building A-block and Collectorate Building B-block (near Kutchery Chowk), registry office (Hinoo), Government Bus Stand (Birsa Chowk), RIMS Campus (Bariatu), Birsa Munda Bus Terminus (Kantatoli), Ranchi Municipal Corporation office (Ratu Road), SSP Residence (Ratu Road) and Hatia Guest House (Doranda).

A senior BSNL official said users would have to login in to a specified webpage using his/her name and mobile number, and then enter the OTP he/she would be sent to enjoy free high-speed wi-fi for half an hour.

“After half-an-hour users would have to recharge online from the webpage to continue the service. We will unveil the the webpage before the launch of the project later this year,” said a senior BSNL official.

Recharge amounts would vary between Rs 9 and Rs 69 to provide data between 1 GB per day to 30 GB for 30 days.

State IT director U.P. Sah said that the Ranchi district informatics centre officer was coordinating with the private agency for selecting the strategic points. “As per the agreement with BSNL the project will roll out in Ranchi by November,” he told The Telegraph.

City Wi-fi will also be launched in Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Deoghar, Palamau and Gumla, but later.

“The Ranchi landmarks (for setting up hotspots) have been identified, keeping in view footfall and importance. In the first phase we have selected 10 spots for high-speed internet data service as a part of the City Wi-fi project. The private agency hired by BSNL has almost completed the survey at all locations,” said Ranchi district informatics centre officer Shiv Bannerjee.

BSNL chief general manager (Jharkhand circle) K. K. Thakur said they had integrated the City Wi-fi project with their mobile data offloading (MDO) service.

“The private agency, Go IP Global Services, is currently conducting a survey. We will be launching the City Wi-fi project first in Ranchi by November. Surveys are also on in six other cities where the project will also be launched soon,” said Thakur.