Hazaribagh police has nabbed the area commander of a newly-formed extremist organisation named Bhartiya Raksha Dal on Saturday late evening. Cache of arms, ammunitions and literature of the organisation recovered on the occasion. This organisation was formed after the split of TPC.
SP Hazaribagh Anup Birthare informed about this in a press conference and said that police had got information that some of the members of this group are coming to Ichak More to paste the poster of the organisation. A team was formed which started patrolling on the NH33. When the team reached to Ichak More, saw some persons who were going to paste the poster. The team nabbed one person. Other members ran away from there. The arrested person identified as Arun Mondal claimed to have confessed that he is holding the post of area commander in the newly formed Bhartiya Raksha Dal.
SP said that he was a hardcore member of TPC who used to collect levy on the name of Manmohan, who is the area commander of TPC of Palamau range. After leaving TPC Mondal formed a dummy organisation Bhartiya Raksha Dal with six or seven members of old TPC. This group had kidnapped some persons and collected the ransom and levy from the parties.
Recently, on 22 July, Mondal had kidnapped a person named Baijnath Mahto of Jarba village of Bishnugarh Block of the district. He had demanded Rs 2 lakh as ransom and released Mahto after getting Rs 20,000. Mondal had become a terror of North West areas of the district. He was in the jail for ten months.
Police have recovered one country made pistol, two live cartridges, Rs 16,000 cash, mobile set of Baijnath Mahto, literature of TPC and Bhartiya Raksha Dal and hand written threatening letters. The police team was led by Rural DSP Dinesh Gupta.