Police have waged war against the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) and Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) —two banned splinter outfits that had wreaked havoc in the Palamu region since the conclusion of the Assembly polls.
Palamu superintendent of police Ajay Linda busted a network of JJMP rebels and caught four of its men. Meanwhile, Latehar SP Prashant Anand caught a sub zonal commander of TPC and recovered 10 weapons, including carbines and rifles. Anand’s team also destroyed a TPC camp.
Sources said the two pronged attacks on JJMP and TPC in the adjoining districts of Palamu and Latehar have pushed the rebels on the back foot.
Latehar police scored a major dent in TPC when in its another operation at Teetir Mahua Bhalubhang near Chatra border its police with Jharkhand Jaguar caught the most dreaded sub zonal commander of TPC Kartik alias Vijay and recovered two carbines, one police looted rifle, one semi automatic rifle, six rifles of 315 bore and 423 live rounds of fire.
Sources said if Latehar police turned the heat on TPC, Palamu police did the same with JJMP ultras when it caught and sent four of its men to jail on Sunday.
SP Palamu Ajay Linda said that police busted JJMP’s network. Explaining its network, Linda said JJMP engages youths of the villages who then act on the command of the head of JJMP Mahesh Bhuiyan and then these people collect cell phone numbers of contractors, bidi leaf traders, brick kiln owners and owners of stone crushing plant and the collected cell phone numbers are passed on to Bhuiyan who then ask them to extract levy.
Linda said the four JJMP’s men sent to jail are Vivek Yadav, Rakesh Yadav, Ashish Sao and Vijay Ram. Vivek and Rakesh have three cases each against them while Ashish has two cases against him and Vijay Ram’s criminal antecedence is searched now.
Anand said Jharkhand Jaguar team played a good role with two of its officials Gopal Kandulya and Anil Jha and their boys along with
DAP Latehar not only outwitted the TPC but also nabbed Kartik and recovered ten weapons. Anand said such a drive against TPC will be further intensified.