Ranchi, August 28 (HS). IG campaign AV Homkar held a meeting through video conferencing on Wednesday to control and prepare a strategy on the gangs of organized criminals active in the state. SSPs and SPs of Ranchi, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ramgarh, Hazaribagh, Bokaro, Latehar, Chatra were present in this meeting. In the meeting, the IG directed to take strict action by identifying the kingpins and members of organized criminal gangs for crime control.
Emphasis was laid on taking action under the provisions of CCA by keeping a constant vigil on the current activities of criminals released on bail. Emphasis was laid on ensuring the arrest of absconding members of organized criminal gangs at any cost. While also giving instructions to crack down on members of inter-district, inter-state criminal gangs, he directed to form a team of active criminals in the district and arrest them immediately and take strict action. He took information about how many proposals were sent from which district against active criminals under CCA, how many were approved and how many are pending. Emphasis was laid on identifying such criminals who commit crimes repeatedly and taking strict action against them as per law. Instructions were given to register the names of accused criminals in the tainted register and keep a constant vigil on them.
To curb the organised criminal gangs, he stressed upon the Senior Superintendents of Police and Superintendents of Police of the concerned districts to take strict action against those gangs for crime control, arrest the absconding criminals of the organised criminal gangs at any cost and curb the crime, including speedy disposal of pending cases. In all the concerned districts, prepare a list of criminal gangs and their members and arrest the absconding criminals soon and keep an eye on the criminals lodged in jail, so that they cannot operate their criminal gang from jail through mobile. Instructions were given to cancel the bail of the criminals released from jail and punish the criminals by speedy trial and take action of attachment and confiscation against the absconding criminals as per rules. ATS SP Rishabh Jha and other officers were present in the meeting.