The day-night operations of Bokaro police in extremist-hit areas led to the recovery of huge quantity of coal near Kanjkiro and Dhaweya village in Nawadih and Gomia block in the Bermo sub-division on Tuesday night. The police have recovered 100 tonnes of illegal coal from two different places including a tractor.
According to the police sources, the coal mafias usually take advantage of the absence of police at night in the Naxal-infested areas, to smuggle coal from here to others destination. The extremists also take levy from the coal mafia to allow them to conduct the illegal transactions, sources said. The Bokaro Superintendent of Police, Jitendra Kumar Singh, received a tip-off that large quantity of illegal coal has been stocked in two different places — one at Kanjkiro and the other was at Mahuatard area — based on this the team launched raids.
He formed a team including Bermo inspector Ramjee Prasad and officer-in charge Rajkumar Yadav while other team Gomia inspector Sailendra Kumar Singh along with officer in charge Mahuatard Manilal Rana raided the place and recovered 50 tonnes from Kanjkiro and around 50 tonnes got from Dhaweya village.