A gang of masked assailants attacked a contractor’s camp and set afire heavy vehicles used in road construction works in Ghaghari village under Dhurki police limits on Saturday midnight.
According to Banshidhar Nagar SDPO Pramod Keshari, the group of five armed men raided the camp of a contractor VRS company and torched two Hywa, one Grader a and a roller machine. They also damaged two JCB machine before leaving the place. These vehicles were engaged in construction of road from Birbal in Chhattisgarh to Dhurki in Jharkhand.
According to reports, an extremist group, the Bharatiya Public Communist Party, Marxist (BPCC) had earlier abducted a site engineer Nagendra Singh on June 25. The BPCC had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and later freeing Nagendra Singh. The self-styled zonal in-charge of the organisation, Nitesh Kumar, took the responsibility of kidnapping the engineer over the phone and said that the abduction was executed due to non-payment of levy by the contractor.
SDPO Sri Banshidhar Nagar Pramod Keshari visited the spot. He said "There is no Naxalite group named The Public Communist Party of India Marxist. This is a criminal incident."
Police forces have been deployed in the village and combing operations have been intensified in the area to trace out the criminals involved in the attack.