Ranchi police have arrested three militants from the squad of TPC commander Diwakar Ganjhu. The police team has taken this action on the basis of secret information received by SSP Chandan Sinha.
Regarding this, the Ranchi Rural SP, Sumit Kumar Aggarwal held a press conference on Wednesday and said that three TPC militants have been arrested, including Prakash Ganjhu, a resident of Barkagaon, Rahul Lahri, a resident of Hazaribagh and Monu Kumar Badaik, a resident of Ranchi. A country-made carbine magazine, 13 live bullets, a bike, a router of Jio company and four mobile phones have been recovered from the arrested militants, he added.
The SP said dozens of cases are registered against the arrested militants in different police stations.
“The police had received information that on Tuesday night, TPC militants had gathered in village Chhapar located on the border of Barkagaon, Keredari and Budhmu police stations on the banks of the Damodar river. Who are planning to collect levy and carry out a major incident,” said Aggarwal.
The SP said that based on the information, a raid team was formed under the leadership of Dy SP Khalari.” After which the police team reached the spot and the extremists started running away. Police surrounded them and caught three extremists. Two other extremists managed to escape taking advantage of the darkness,” he added.