The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is investigating Lukuiya More encounter case carried raid at several places throughout the day on Saturday in Latehar district where it is learnt to have seized around Rs 2.70 crore during a search operation.
The NIA searched the residence of a local contractor Santosh Singh at Sriram Chowk under Chandwa police station. Police also took away some documents from his residence.
Highly placed sources said that the NIA is also looking at possible sources of revenue of CPI (Maoist) rebels that had executed this encounter on November 22 last year during the assembly election.
Three homeguard jawans and an ASI rank official of Latehar police were gunned down at Lukuiya More on NH 39 under Chandwa police station of Latehar district ahead of the first phase of assembly election. CPI (Maoist) sub zonal commander Ravindra Ganjhu had executed the assassination.
Investigative agency started probing terror funding aspect behind this attack when as many as seven rebels Baijnath Ganjhu, Kunwar Ganjhu, Rajesh Ganjhu, Sunil Ganjhu, Faguna Ganjhu, Sanjay Ganjhu and Naresh Ganjhu were arrested by Latehar police in January this year.
All of them were part of the armed squad of CPI (Maoist) that had executed police personnel.
Police got inputs that three rebels associated with Ravindra Ganjhu are returning after collecting levy from a contractor. Police nabbed them at Saroj Nagar under Chandwa police station and recovered Rs five lakh from their possession. Rebels arrested that they had collected levy amount from contractor Sonu Singh.
In another development, dreaded rebel Boyda Pahan and three other rebels surrendered before Ranchi police along with their weapon.
They surrendered before Ranchi DIG Akhilesh Kumar Jha, Ranchi SSP Surendra Kumar Jha and Ranchi DC Chhavi Ranjan. Pahan, wanted in as many as 48 cases, was carrying Rs five lakh cash prize on his head. Remaining three rebels were identified as Birsa Mundu, Gonda Pahan and Birsa Munda.
They surrendered under surrender and rehabilitation policy of the state government. They will be given monitory and other assistance by the state government for their rehabilitation in the due course of time. All of them were taken to jail later on.