The Bokaro police on have launched a fresh drive against coal mafia on the directive of Bokaro Superintendent of Police YS Ramesh and Bermo SDPO Raj Kumar Mehta to prevent rampant illegal coal trade across the Bermo CCl areas .
Apart from seizing about several tones of illegal coal who were carrying coal from different CCl mines to Maa Tara coal factory, Nawadih. SDPO Rajkumar Mehta said the local police have also seized five trucks and instituted cases against the offenders under the suitable IPC.
He also said the police have the names of names of coal smugglers, CCl employees and mafias and have started conducting raids for arresting them.
He said after getting a tip, the local police in their jurisdictions trapped illegal coal smugglers by hiding in a nearby bush and ass soon as the five coal laden trucks reached Kanjkiro village, the police team pounced upon them and seized all five trucks. But taking advantage of crowed ,all drivers, cleaners and coal mafia managed to escape .
“Initially we were concentrating on locating illegal business from the mines. Meanwhile we are also trying to seize coal stores at Nawadih location on illegally. According to our information,huge quantizes of illegal coal are being collected with manage of CCl employees and stored at Maa Tara coal factory in Nawadih,” said SDPO Bermo Raj Kumar Mehta.
“Hence our next target is to identify the CCl employees and coal mafias so that they can be booked and the nexus between the coal mafias and CCl employees broken,” Mehta added .
In another incident on the outskirts of the Mahuatard area police have sized 200 begs of illegal coal from Simrabeda.