Hazaribagh police have nabbed JPC Supremo Vivek Yadav alias Gyani Ji along with an associate Ajay Mahto yesterday, said SP Akhilesh Jha in a press conference on Wednesday.
The SP informed that the police has recovered one 9 mm pistol, 4 live cartridges, Rs. 5000 cash and two mobiles from these two hardcore left extremists. Both Vivek Yadav and Ajay Mahto are the named accused in more than two dozen cases of Hazaribagh, Ramgarh, Chatra and other districts of Jharkhand. They are accused of murder, extortion, kidnapping, demanding levy and other heinous crimes, he added.
Vivek Yadav alias Gyani Ji is a resident of Deoghar district while Ajay Mahto is a resident of Shila Ichak of Chatra district. According to sources Vivek Yadav was chosen Supremo of left ultra orgaisation Jharkhand Prastuti Committee after the death of Guddu Ganjhu who was killed in an encounter in January 2015.
Vivek and Ajay had torched a petrol pump and SBI’s ATM on Hazaribagh-Barkagaon Road because the petrol pump owner had not fulfilled their demand of levy.
SP Akhilesh Jha said that on Tuesday evening the police sources informed that JPC ultras are going to assemble in Bendi forest area of Katkamdag block of Hazaribagh district. A joint team of Katkamdag and Pelawal PS was formed under the leadership of OICs Dinesh Kumar Singh and Md. Sallauddin. The team raided the forest area yester-night and nabbed both the ultras.
On the other hand a story in the town is in talks since Monday late evening. According to this story Hazaribagh police arrested two persons from an x-ray clinic located in front of Sadar Hospital on the information of some doctor or its sources. It was in talks that these two ultras had contacted a doctor for treatment and the doctor had sent him for having x-ray. It is said that there was clear sign of knife cut on the neck of one of them as someone has tried to cut the neck of one of them. In this talk it was also added that the police has also arrested three persons in suspicion of accompanying them including a woman. But in PC, SP Jha kept mum on this talk.