More than 40 tonnes of illegal coal have been seized by the police in the last 20 hours. The operation was conducted on the directives of the Bokaro superintendent of police YS Ramresh to check theft of illegal coal business including, buying and stocking, in various parts within the jurisdictions of Bokaro thermal police station.
Coal smugglers were totally taken in by surprise on Monday and Tuesday afternoon, when the Officer-in charge cum Inspector Rajesh Kujur alonwith ID Ram, NK Singh and other forces launched a sudden raid at Jarandih railway siding near Manjhi tola. Some feel that the coal smugglers had already got wing of the impending raid.
Seeing the police party led by O/C Rajesh Kujur ,the smugglers beat a hasty retreat, nearly 32 tonnes of coal was recovered from the intensive operation .
However, on Tuesday evening the police could recover about 4 tonnes from Mallah tola near Nisan hut. Police sources said coal is carted on bicycle and others communication and dumped in the Jarandih residential colony from where it is transported to other destinations.
With the sudden raids panic seems to have spread among some of the illegal traders in the locality. The Bokaro superintendent of Police Y.S. Ramesh said he conveyed to all the officer-in –charges of all police stations of the Bokaro that he will not allow illegal mining and his movement against illegal mining of coal in Bokaro will continue unabated.