Hazaribagh police arrested an active member of TPC from Boddom Bazar area of the town on Friday. Police also recovered Rs 95000 cash, a country made pistol, two live cartridges and seven mobile phone sets from him.
Talking to media persons in his office SP Hazaribagh, Anup Birthare said that police received =information almost regularly that an active member of banned ultras organization Tritiya Prastuti Committee Ravindra Mahto alias Kamlesh Kumar is collecting money as levy from different persons of the district. On this information a team was formed under the leadership of DSP KK Mahto.
The team started search operation as per the information. Many raids were made to nab the suspect. Yesterday we got an information that the TPC man is going to collect levy money from a person in boddom bazaar area of the town. Alert team members were ready at the spot as per the information. On Friday morning as Ravindra Mahto reached boddom bazaar the police team immediately captured him. Ravindra Mahto alias Kamlesh Kumar is a resident of Barkagaon block of Hazaribagh district.
SP Birthare said that the arrested member of TPC is a very faithful person of his outfit. The organization had given him the responsibility to collect the amount of levy and to supply the required items to the other members of the organization. According to Birthare Ravindra joined the organization about three years ago and as per information he was going to be promoted as area commander of the organization very soon.
As per police records Ravindra is the named accused of more than half a dozen cases lodged in different police stations of the district. We will soon take him in custody from the court as he can provide many important info to the police regarding the organization and the white collared persons of the society who not only supports the group but also provide financial assistance to the organization, Birthare added.