The Bermo police continuing ant-coal smuggling drive on Monday and seized two tractors with loaded with 10 tonnes of illegal and also made accused of three persons involved in the illegal trade under the Pannak police station here ,Dy SP Rajkumar Mehta said .The coals seized in two tractors are weighed 10 tonnes which cost worth more than Rs 50,000.
Dy SP ,Raj Kumar Mehta said the tractors ferrying illegal caught by a police team (Bermo, Bokaro Thermal ,Gandhinagar PS) at Parsabera area in Nawadih block in Monday morning .The coal were loaded in the tractors in abandoned mines in Govindpur under the Nawadih police station and were being transported to other destination. However three coal smugglers managed to escape ,police sources said .This is the second routine recovery of illegal coals in span of past 24 hours .Meanwhile police on Sunday have seized 15 motorcycle with illegal coals conducting drive in different part of the block .
Bokaro Supertendent of police Y.S.Ramresh said that they instructed all police stations to stop illegal mining and transportation in the district or otherwise be ready to face the music .Economic crime will not be tolerated in the area, said Ramesh .Bokaro Thermal Inspector cum officer-in charge Rajesh Kujur said that they can conduct raids at the spot where coal is excavated in Nawadih block .
But it is instruction of higher officials to concentrate on curbing illegal coal transportation first .Though the entire Nawadih block area is Maoist zone covered with thick forest it will be difficult and risky for police but we are always ready to face and fight it.