Palamu police arrested two JPC cadres one of whom is the zonal commander of JPC in Panki on Thursday night and seized Rs 20,000 in cash from them. Sharing the information DSP PR Barwar said the recovered cash was a levy money taken by the JPC cadres from unidentified kendu leaf trader.
Following the recovery Rs 2 lakh of levy money from a courier of senior Maoist Bada Vikash three days back, DIG police Palamu Saket Kumar Singh has directed the police officials to keep an eye on Naxals collecting or carrying levy money from the kendu leaf traders.
The various Naxal outfits ranging from CPI Maoist to JPC or JJMP or TSPC or PlFI have been imposing levy tendu Kendu leave traders.
Sources said a competition is going on among the Naxal outfits to collect more levy money from the Kendu leave traders in the district. Kendu leaf traders are obliging the Naxal outfits with hard cash fearing these outfits may burn down their stored kendu leaf bags
PR Barwar said the levy money was recovered from the two together lokender Yadav alias Naveen ji zonal commander and cadre Nand Kishore Yadav alias Roshan of JPC.
Around ten at night on June 9 the Panki police did this daring job as the fleeing JPC cadres on two bikes had opened fire at the chasing police party but the Panki police showing grit and determination overpowered the two on one bike said Barwar.
These two were on a bike which the police seized. Police recovered two country made pistols three rounds of fire of 7.62 bore and two cell phones.
Barwar said two other JPC cadres the notorious face Sanjay Bhuiyan and Upender Yadav managed to flee on other bike.
The JPC cadres led by their zonal commander Naveen ji were thus on two bikes with levy money in possession of the two Naveen and Roshan whom the poloice in a swift and precise chase got arrested.
Naveen has eight cases against him which includes one of ambushing a police patrol party. Cases of dacoity and kidnapping stand against Naveen ji. Roshan too has cases of kidnapping of Panki CO and burning down of a JCB machine.