Simdega Police on Wednesday arrested three suspected People’s liberation Front of India (PlFI) men, carrying tools used for making arms, from a road side Dhaba in Simdega. The vehicle, in which thry came, having registration number JH 09H 0001, is said to be of Kolebira MlA Enosh Ekka who is currently lodged in Simdega Jail in a murder case. Credentials of the vehicle, however, were under investigation.
According to the police, after getting a tip-off that some PlFI supporters were coming for collecting levy, the police coming into action immediately identified a black Scorpio being used by the representative of Kolebira MlA Sujitnath alias Pandit. Tools used for making vehicles as well as the money collected through levy were also recovered from the vehicle. list of arrested persons includes the names of – Kishun alias Ramkrishna Sahu, Aniush Khes and Vijay Kumar Vishwakarma. Vijay is a technician hailing from Nalanda inBihar.
After being interrogated the arrested persons admitted that they had come to Sindega for the levy amount collected from a contractor Arvind Soreng who has taken a contract for construction of a bridge in Dongapani. They also revealed that five technicians indulged in making arms under the leadership of Samir for whom they had come for purchasing of materials for making arms. Sources in the police department also said that the arrested persons were returning from Simdgea jail after meeting with the Ekka.
The police also recovered steel sheets from a house of Odga which was purchased from Rourkela on Tuesday. Other places are also being raided on the tip off given by the arrested persons.