Police and forest department seized 282 sacks of illegal kendu leaves stored in barn at most naxal-infested village Barkhand and Nagnaha under Bhandariya police station on Thursday.
According to SDPO Manoj Kumar Mahato, a joint team of district police and forest department, led by ASP Sadan Kumar, today, raided two separated villages and seized 282 bags of illegal kendu leaves from the Barn.
The kendu leaf barn was running with the collaboration of Maoists.
It was running with the support of sub zonal commander Mrityunjay Bhuiyan.
In exchange for this, a lot of money was given to the Maoists, said the SDPO.
An FIR was lodged in Bhandariya police station against five people including sub zonal commander Mrityunjay Bhuiyan, Subodh Gupta, Sanjay Keshari, Jawahir Singh and Ajay Sao under sections of 414/406/420/120 IPC, 33 Forest Act and 12 MMRD Act.