Overview
- Sanjay Singh was taken into custody by the Bihar Special Task Force as he alighted from a train at Patna Junction in an operation that ended roughly a year of him evading police.
- Police say Singh faces about 26–27 criminal cases across Bihar and Jharkhand, including murder, contract killing, extortion, kidnapping, land grabbing and offences under the Arms Act.
- Singh is wanted in the Bihta case from August 2025 after police seized an AK-47, a .315 rifle and about 120 live cartridges during a raid that arrested 14 associates and prompted a fresh FIR.
- After his arrest the STF handed Singh to Bihta police, who plan to seek remand to question him specifically about the recovered weapons and to probe his alleged role in sand‑mining and extortion networks.
- Investigators say Pandav Sena began as a 1990s private militia and later morphed into a profit‑driven criminal syndicate; authorities expect the arrest to drive coordinated multi‑district inquiries and further operations that could disrupt local land‑mafia and sand‑mining rackets.