LAW KUMAR MISHRA
PATNA:National Investigation Agency on Thursday filed charge sheet against a top extremist of Jharkhand, Ganju,the self styled zonal commander or TPC,a Maoist outfit of Jharkhand in the special court at Ranchi.
According to NIA spokesman,the charge sheet has been filed under different sections of the UAPA and IPC against Vikash Ganju alias Avinash alias Dashrath in connection with the FIR registerd at Panki police station of Palamu on November 23,2017following recovery of Rs five lakhs as cash and arms and ammunitions from the TPC operators.TPC is a break away group of CPI(Maoists) and declared an unlawful organisation.
TPC is involved in extortion and levy collection from the businessmen, industrialists, contractors involved in government developmental projects in several districts of Jharkhand and Bihar. NIA had taken over the investigation on July 9,2018 after re-registering the case as RC 23/2018/NIA/DLI
Earlier, NIA had filed first supplementary charge sheet on July 23.2017 against eight accused persons,. Shyam Bhokta, Uchit Mahto, Premsagar Mahto, Amit Singh, AkramanJi, Laxman Ganju alias Kohram ji, Mukesh Ganjhu and Nageswar Ganju alias Tarun Ji in this case.
Absconding accused Vikas Ganjhu alias Avinash alias Dashrath Ganjhu alias Varun Ji, s/o Ramdev alias Leda Ganjhu, resident of Magaratola, under Kunda, police station in Chatra (Jharkhnad) was remanded in the instant case on September9.2020.
Investigation has established that arrested accused Vikas Ganjhu @Avinash @ Dashrath Ganjhu @ Varun, a TPC Zonal Commander, colluded with the top leadership of TPC and was actively involved in extortion and levy collection for further strengthening TPC and to carry out various terrorist activities,NIA spokesman claimed