KOLKATA: Two of the notorious gangs of Kasba-Picnic Garden area — one led by Munna Pandey and the other by Biswajit Poddar alias Sona Pappu — came head-to-head on Thursday afternoon. Pandey was allegedly attacked and assaulted by the Pappu’s gang as soon as he stepped out of the Presidency Correctional Home after being released on bail. However, cops arrived in time to intervene and managed to save Pandey who was rushed to the SSKM Hospital. His condition was stated to be stable.
The anti rowdy section of detective department nabbed as many as 25 of the accused, all residents of Rajdanga Main Road, Nabapally, Bediadanga and Swinhoe Lane. Several weapons, including arms, have been recovered from the accused. Twenty-five others, including Sona Pappu, were mentioned in the FIR with attempt to murder, rioting and criminal conspiracy charges being slapped on them.
Cops said that raids were being conducted at Kasba, Tiljala and a few places in South and North 24 Parganas in search of the accused. Senior officers at Lalbazar said they cannot remember another instance in the recent past when an attempt to murder a gangster had been made in such a brazen manner.
“The accused, led by Sona, wanted to kill their rival Munna of Bosepukur as soon as he stepped out of the jail after he was released on bail. They were armed with weapons like fire arms, sticks, iron rods, choppers, foldable sticks and bricks and attacked the complainant Munna around 2pm.
A team from ARS, DD and local police, on being alerted about the incident, reached the spot and rescued Munna. We nabbed 25 people from the spot. The 26th accused, Dinu Yadav, who has teamed up with Sona against their common rival and was leading the attack, managed to flee,” said joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
Police sources said that two of the accused, Dinu and Sk Akhtar Ali, first assaulted Munna. “Country-made single shot firearms loaded with a live cartridge were seized from the possession of Ali. An iron-made chopper was seized from another accused, Krishna Dubey,” said Sharma.
