A team of NIA (National Investigation Agency) reached Hazaribagh on Thursday to investigate the corruption links between private coal outsourcing companies, extremists and police personnel of the Hazaribagh and Chatra districts. The team members raided the house of a GM of an outsourcing company and seized important document and cell phones of the living members of the house. The team detained the GM of the company Raghuram Reddy from the Birsa Munda Airport of Ranchi on Thursday evening and brought to Hazaribagh.
The NIA team had reached the GM’s house with local police officers and jawans two days ago. The house was locked. The team members had sealed the house. On the second day the team members reached to the office of the outsourcing VGR company.
The team came to know that Reddy is out of station. He may come in the evening by flight to Hazaribagh. The team members rushed to Birsa Munda Airport Ranchi and they have arrested the Reddy as he came out from the airport. The team members came to Hazaribagh with Reddy.
The team opened the Panditji Road situated house in presence of Reddy with local police officers and jawans. The whole campus of the Reddy’s house was full of police personnel. They entered into the house and started searching in the late evening. The raid continued till early morning of Friday.
Sources said that the NIA team seized the important documents from the house that are sufficient to prove the nexus of private outsourcing company, local police and extremists’ groups of the areas. The team also seized the cell phone of Reddy, house servant and one male member, who was living in the house with Reddy,
The NIA team became active when the second man of the TPC Kohram Yadav was arrested by Hazaribagh police. He opened so many secret information related to the organization and also the sources of the funding of the organization.
Superintendent of Police Mayur Patel said that the NIA team reached Hazaribagh, they did their work, raided the house and then returned from the Hazaribagh. They demanded the local police help which was provided to them.