Posta murder: Trio held from Guj, Bihar

Kolkata: Almost three weeks after the murder of a security guard, Ranjit Biswas, outside Manpuria Agro Company in Posta, police have arrested three persons from Jamnagar in Gujarat and Lakhsmisarai in Bihar for their alleged involvement in the murder.
According to sources, the arrested have been identified as Ritesh Patel (27), his cousin Rahul Kumar (23) and Rahul's cousin Rajiv Kumar (24).Sources said the victim had joined the organization located on the fifth floor of the Posta highrise only six months ago.
According to Debasish Boral, joint CP (crime), it was Patel who had planned a major heist at the company. "Patel's father Karn is still an employee of this company. Patel, too, worked here for about six months before he was sacked. He then planned to rob the vault of the company. The three of them accordingly came to Kolkata and one of them entered the firm's office when it was already closed on December 18. The accused opened the door for the two others but Ranjit saw them. The three then throttled him to death and fled," said Boral.The detective department said that they had a little lead from a CCTv footage where the accused could not fix a leucoplast. One of the employees said he might be one Ritesh and sources were deployed to track him down. Cops traced his mobile phone to Burrabazar area on the day of the murder and decided to nab him. "A team camped for four days at Jamnagar and upon positive idfentification another team simultaneously raided Lakhsmisarai. While Ritesh was arrested from Jamnagar, his relatives were picked up from Bihar," said a homicide squad official. The accused are being brought to Kolkata on transit remand.
There have been at least six major robberies or attempts to robbery in this zone this year. Locals and traders say that a lot has to do with lax police presence in the area, especially at night. A gang of three looted a jewellery shop in Burrabazar in May but a lion's share of the booty, much of which turned out to be costume jewellery, was recovered as local residents managed to catch one of the robbers. In September, dacoits had raided a jewellery shop at Hariram Goenka Street. They fired at employees to open the vault and fled with lakhs before the Bidhannagar police nabbed the gang members.