The Hazaribagh SDJM court on Friday granted the crime investigation department (CID) permission to take ex-agriculture Minister and Barkagaon MlA Yogendra Sao in remand for two days to investigate his role in forming goons' gangs named Jharkhand Bachao Aandolan and Jharkhand Tiger Force.
Sao was arrested in Delhi by the Jharkhand police on October 5 following warrants against him after his alleged links with the ultra outfits raised by him for extortion purposes. Warrant against Sao was issued on September 14 by a Hazaribagh court.
ADG (CID) SN Pradhan said that the CID will try to know everything in detail from him in order to reach out to the truth.
"He has been taken on remand for two days during which we will try to find establish the links with the rebels as being claimed by some of the arrested ultras," said another senior police official requesting anonymity. The CID had requested for a remand of three days before the court of acting SDJM Abhimanyu Kumar but we were granted two days time to interrogated Sao, added the official.
Sao was arrested in Delhi from the Delhi residence of Pannalal who, according to the police records, has been running a human trafficking racket in the name of placement agencies in Delhi and Jharkhand. According to sources in the police department, Sao will be interrogated on various points on the basis of the evidences collected by the CID in the last one month.
The CID on a tip-off given by arrested Jharkhand Tiger chief Rajkumar Gupta and Sao's personal assistant Mukesh Sahu, have raided several locations of Sao allegedly used for the purpose of giving training to the rebel members, and gathered crucial evidences against him.
Sao was made to resign on September 12 following allegations made by the arrested 'Jharkhand Tiger' chief Rajkumar Gupta of Sao giving patronage to the outfit and also being its founder. All facts and call detail records of Sao's mobile phone indicated that he was in regular contact of the arrested persons. later, Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate Akhilesh had issued warrant against him.
Initially, the CID had been asked to investigate the case jointly along with the district police. Chief Minister Hemant Soren, however, handed over the case to the CID after being requested by Sao's family accusing the Hazaribagh police of framing the former minister in connivance with his opponents to malign his image.