The NIA has conducted searches at the premises of a construction firm in Ranchi in connection with a case relating to Maoist funding.
The searches yielded cash book and several bank account details used for channelizing the “levy” for the banned CPI (Maoist).
The NIA conducted the searches on Tuesday at the office premises of Ram Kripal Singh Construction Private Limited Company at Panchwati Plaza, Kutchary Road, Ranchi in connection with NIA case relating to terror funding of CPI (Maoist), Giridih registered on July 9, 2018.
The case was originally registered at Dumri Police station in Giridih district of Jharkhand on January 22,.2018 after the arrest of accused Manoj Kumar with cash amounting to Rs 6 lakh and other incriminating documents.
Kumar was alleged to have collected ‘levy’ from contractors on the instructions of absconding accused Krishna Da alias
Krishna Hansda of Mandladih Ledhwa village under Pirtand police station in Giridih, Hansda was a Jharkhand Regional Committee member of CPI(Maoist).
“During investigation, it was revealed that the arrested accused Manoj Kumar was an employee of RKS Construction Private Limited Company and was acting as conduit between the construction firm and the Maoists in Giridih area, the NIA said in a statement.
The probe also revealed that accused Hansda was going to make levy payment of Rs 6 lakhs to the operatives of CPI (Maoist) when he was apprehended.