Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police Saturday took five members of ‘Koi Bhai Nahin’ (KBN) gang on a two-day remand for further interrogation. They were brought from Jharapada Jail in Bhubaneswar amid tight security in the morning.
“The SDJM Court here granted police to take the KBN members on remand. Police will interrogate them to extract more information about the gang as well as others who are absconding,” an official said.
According to the official, the five alleged miscreants who have been taken on remand are Suman Kumar Parida, Rajesh Behera, Sanatan Behera, Rahul Jena and Narendra Kumar Sahu. Police had appealed for a seven-day remand and only two day’s custody was granted.
A police team has been probing to ascertain the link, if any, regarding deals involving firearms.
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It may be mentioned here that following the surrender of two members Chenga and Sania of the notorious KBN gang before a local court, a special team of the Commissionerate Police-Bhubaneswar Wednesday raided the mastermind of KBN Bubu Jena’s house at Gandamunda.
Commissionerate Police-Bhubaneswar has so far arrested as many as seven members of the gang. Police had earlier bulldozed the house of Chenga after getting a tip-off that a number of firearms were stored in it. The gang is said to have 29 members.
Police intensified their action after registering cases against the KBN members after visuals of young men brandishing guns and other weapons in public while consuming contrabands surfaced on social media.
The viral videos of KBN were shot on different days and uploaded on Instagram. A probe was carried out on the basis of the videos. A fresh video of the gang recently went viral on social media. Some members of the notorious gang were seen partying in a sedan by parking it on the middle of a national highway in Bhubaneswar.
PNN