Police arrested a person for demaning extortion worth Rs5 lakh from a principal of Government School in the name of Maoist. Police also recovered two mobile phones from him.
In a Press conference on Sunday, SP Kartik S said, “The acting principal of the High School Charhu had submitted an application and described in it that he was supervising the construction work of the school building and he was asked for extortion money worth Rs5 lakh from mobile number 8102725750 by Dinesh Gope who claimed to be a Maoist and he was also threatened to be murdered in case of failure to give the money.”
“In that matter in Kisko thana a case number 78/15 dated 21 Oct 2015 act 353/387/37 under Indian Panel Act was lodged. A special team was set up for this included the technical wing. An array of raid was covered in the suspected areas and police succeeded to arrest the accused from Sukumar Nagra Toli of Kuru block. He was recognized as Firoz Ansari Islam Ansari son of Rahmat Ansari from Dakra Bhootnagar Khalari distrci Ranchi. Police also recovered the phone bearing the same number he had misused for threatening,” said the SP.
The arrested persons used to do labor work at outside the state. Before some month he had come to Jharkhand and in the name of moist Dinesh Gope he used to take extortion money. In the special team of police inspector Ashok Ram Kuru Thana, police inspector Amin Besra Kisko Thana, asst inspector Kuru Thana Shamim Ahmad and policemen were included, Kartik told.
With the arrest several other information also came out about the other persons involved in this type of anti social and criminal activities, the SP added.