NIA arrests Maoist member in Jharkhand arms case
Wednesday - July 18, 2018 2:46 pm ,
Category : INDIA
NIA arrests Maoist member in Jharkhand arms case
New Delhi/Ranchi July 18 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday said it has arrested a member of a banned Maoist organisation during its ongoing probe into seizure of over 1 100 Aadhaar cards and arms in March.
A National Investigation Agency spokesperson in Delhi said that the central agency has arrested Jharilal Mahto a member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist from Gujarat s Vadodara on Monday.
"Mahto has been involved in laundering of money of top leaders and operatives of the group " he said.
The CPI-Maoist member was produced before a Special NIA court in Jharkhand s Ranchi on Tuesday which sent him to police custody for eight days.
According to the counter-terror probe agency official Mahto from Jharkhand s Giridih is one of the named accused in the case.
The agency s action comes in the wake of the case it registered on May 9 on the basis of the case registered by the Jharkhand Police on March 6 in Dumri police station.
On May 29 the agency seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Jharkhand s Bokaro.
Earlier the Jharkhand Police had arrested 15 armed Maoist cadres including functionaries of CPI-Maoist from Dumri in Giridih and recovered 12 other weapons including AK-47 Insas SLR and .303 rifles from them.
It said 60 ATM (SBI) cards 199 letters of thanks issued by the Allahabad Bank for opening accounts and 1 125 Aadhaar cards were also recovered during the operation.
--IANS aks/in/sed
A National Investigation Agency spokesperson in Delhi said that the central agency has arrested Jharilal Mahto a member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist from Gujarat s Vadodara on Monday.
"Mahto has been involved in laundering of money of top leaders and operatives of the group " he said.
The CPI-Maoist member was produced before a Special NIA court in Jharkhand s Ranchi on Tuesday which sent him to police custody for eight days.
According to the counter-terror probe agency official Mahto from Jharkhand s Giridih is one of the named accused in the case.
The agency s action comes in the wake of the case it registered on May 9 on the basis of the case registered by the Jharkhand Police on March 6 in Dumri police station.
On May 29 the agency seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Jharkhand s Bokaro.
Earlier the Jharkhand Police had arrested 15 armed Maoist cadres including functionaries of CPI-Maoist from Dumri in Giridih and recovered 12 other weapons including AK-47 Insas SLR and .303 rifles from them.
It said 60 ATM (SBI) cards 199 letters of thanks issued by the Allahabad Bank for opening accounts and 1 125 Aadhaar cards were also recovered during the operation.
--IANS aks/in/sed
