The men are learnt to have confessed to their crime in October and November in Latheeya and Itko villages under Nawa Bazar police station. Involvement of these people in the crime was further established once police found the cloth in their possession. Birhor is among the nine primitive and endangered tribal groups in Jharkhand . According to a report of the Jharkhand Tribal Welfare Research Institute there were just 7,514 birhors in the state in 2001 Census. Mahatha said there were seven members in the group, of which five present at the brick kiln during the police raid have been arrested.