Ranka police have arrested area commander of Tritiya Prastuti Commitee (2) Chhotu Singh Kharwar at Tenudih forest. Police also recovered two country-made pistols, two live cartridges and four empty cartridges.
According to Garhwa SP Sudhir Kumar Jha, acting on a tip off Ranka police raided the Tenudih forest and nabbed to Chhotu who was managed to escape. SP said that arrested area commander of TPC (2) was involved in 11 cases including kidnapping of a copule, kidnapping of bank manager, set fire a truck etc. After arresting of zonal commander of TPC (2) Raushan, Chhotu was made area commander. He was active in Ranka police station area about six months. In his confession the area commander has accepted that Birendra Baitha, Manoj Baitha, Shakil Ahamad, Srikant Sao, Babloo Ansari, Pintoo Khan, Sanjay Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Pinku Soni, Sandeep Singh, lalu Yadav, laxman Bhuiya, lakhanOraon, Mahendra Sundi, Ashok Chaubey and Rajesh Kumar Singh have given levy to the TPC(2).