Garhwa: Police have arrested four criminals with arms and ammunition in connection with firing on a hotel owner Sonu Kumar alias Sunny in which no any casualty was reported, police said on Saturday.The arrested criminals included Sushil Kumar Tiwari alias Chhotu Tiwari, his associates Gyan Prakash Tiwari alias Ranjan Tiwari, Ravi Chandravanshi and Ritesh Ranjan alias Bampi Patwa. While the arrest of fifth criminal Deepak Tiwari is yet to be arrested. Police have also recovered from them a pistol, a loaded country made katta, some live cartridges and two motor cycles.Garhwa SP, Deepak Kumar Pandey on Saturday told media persons that the criminals had fired on Sonu Kumar owner of Virat Hotel on May 15 around 11 pm. On the following day Sonu filed a written complaint with the police station stating that Chhotu Tiwari and his associates had demanded Rs 50,000 extortion. “A case was registered in this connection on May 16 under section 308 (4)/109 (1)/3 (5) of BNS and 27 Arms Act,” he said.He added, “We received input that the criminals had approached Sonu to buy wine which priced at Rs 600. But the criminals paid Rs 560 through PhonePe. The petty amount of only Rs 40 laid to a brawl between Sonu Kumar and Chhotu Tiwari while Chhotu Tiwari fired on Sonu Kumar. Acting on a tip of we formed a team led by SDPO, Neeraj Kumar. The team conducted a raid and arrested the four criminals on Friday night.”Chhotu has criminal history with four cases against him Garhwa police station.
