The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet against five accused persons in Jehanabad arms recovery case, before a designated court in Patna.
The agency filed the chargesheet in the case Indian Penal Code Sections relating to waging war against the nation and criminal conspiracy besides relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the NIA said in a statement.
The five accused named in the chargesheet are Parshuram Singh alias Nandlal, Prem Raj alias Gautam Kumar, Rakesh Kumar and Mohd. Badruddin, all residents of Gola Road, Gazdarchak, Danapur, Patna, Bihar and Sanjay Singh of Bohiya, Gaya, Bihar, it said.
The case relates to the recovery and seizure of arms, ammunitions and other incriminating materials from the accused persons. The case was originally registered as FIR No. 246/2021 dated March 31, 2021 of Police Station Karona Out Post, Jehanabad, Bihar and the NIA had re-registered the case June 17.
Another case FIR No. 260/21 dated March 31, 2021 registered at Danapur Police Station, was found to be connected to the earlier case and was accordingly taken up for investigation, it said.
“Investigation has established that the accused Parshu Ram Singh alias Nandlal, active member of the CPI (Maoist) was associated with the top Naxal commander Arvindji alias Dev Kumar (now deceased). He was responsible for the fabrication of improvised hand grenades and their transportation along with other arms and ammunition to Jharkhand-based Maoist Commanders for the furtherance of terrorist activities. Parshu Ram Singh used his garage at Danapur for the storage of the arms. Mohd. Badruddin was the fabricator of the grenades and the entire module was supported by the other accused persons,” it added.