A police team headed by officer-in charge of Bokaro thermal police station, Raj Kumar Yadav and Nawadih police station head Deepak Kumar have came down heavily on all illegal transportation of coal and iron in Nawadih area.
The police team also carried out raids at Nawadih and Bokaro Thermal region of the said police stations, about 50 km from police headquarter.
Police sources said that four vehicles loads of coal and iron spare parts were intercepted at Kusumdih village, Govindpur colliery and Kanjkiro village. Police said the trucks bearing registration number BR, 13G-0562, JH 10Z-1515, one Maruti van (WM-02-0746) and a tractor without number plate respectively were loaded with more than 35 tonne of illegal coal and 1,000 kg of iron spare parts including track pad and folly and were seized when moving very fast and arousing suspicion and arrested four persons -Shamir Alam, Jasim Ansari ,Arjun Gupta and Rajesh Sharma .
Sources said that many cases of theft of coal iron have been reported from Bokaro Thermal and Nawadih region.On average 3-5 trucks of coal and iron are being stolen from abounded mines and Govindpur CCl project everyday .It is sad situation, since the CCl authorities is sitting with hands folded.
According to sources, large number of iron spare parts have reportedly been stolen from Govindpur CCl store. It has been observed that coal is carted on cycles and dumped in the middle of dance forest area, between Bokaro Thermal and Nawadih from where it is loaded on trucks and transported to other locations.