Five suspected PlFI cadres, who had allegedly been terrorizing people with air guns for extorting levy, have been arrested by police from Ormanjhi and Kanke areas.
SSP Kuldeep Dwivedi talking to media persons here said that these people were involved basically in extortion of levy from dozens of brick kiln and crusher owners in Ormanjhi, Kanke and adjoining areas of Ramgarh district.
Arrested persons include Ratan Bedia (24), Sanjay Bedia (28), Gopal Thakur (32), Ajay Bhagat (25), Sohrai Bedia (28) and Rajesh Kumar.
“Five air guns, one country made pistol in worn out condition, one double barrel gun, four sets of uniform, one blank letter pad of PlFI and 8 mobile phones have been recovered from them,” said the SSP. Their links with PlFI, however, was to be verified, he added.
“Though only two FIRs have been lodged against them, there are dozens of other incidents of loot, extortion and levy collection executed by them,” said Dwivedi. A joint operation was launched by both Ranchi and Ramgarh Police as they were operating simultaneously in both the districts, the SSP added.
“They had burnt a Poklen and had also pasted stickers seeking levy from Singh against which an FIR was lodged at Barkakana police station,” the SSP said. The same group had also beaten up the staff of JPl Enterprises owned by Singh in lowadih, Barkakana on April 21 demanding levy from them, he added.
During investigations, Gopal Thakur and Ratan Bedia were arrested near Chuttupalu on the basis of special information gathered by the Police who admitted that a call was made by them for levy, he added.
“On the basis of information provided by them, Rajesh Sao and Ajay Bhagat were later arrested from lalpania in Bokaro along with the mobile used by them,” Dwivedi said.
later, Sanjan Bedia and Sohrai Bedia were also arrested along with the arms from Charki Dumri village under Ormanjhi police station. A case under section 25(1-b)a/26/35 Arms Act and 17 ClA Act has been registered against them, he said.
Rajesh Sao alias Thikri has already a case of levy collection against him at lalpania police station and had been to jail earlier also while Ratan Bedia and Sohrai Bedia were sent to jail in extortion cases registered against them at Barkakana police station.
Meanwhile, in another case of suspected rape and murder which took place on Monday late in the evening behind Sadar police station in Kokar, Police are yet to establish the identity of the woman who got killed in the incident. The SSP said that since they could not get any clue from the mobile phone recovered from the spot and were waiting for the FSl reports to investigate the matter further.
“We are investigating the case taking all aspects into consideration. There are also chances that she might have been brought from some other place and had been dumped here in order to remove evidences in this regard,” he said.
The body of the half-naked, 30-year old woman was found from an under-construction building behind Sadar Police Station. The face was crushed by stones in such a way that it was difficult to identify the victim.
her face. Police suspected that it was done deliberately so that police might not be able to identify her.