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24 July 2024
National Investigation Agency has launched raid at premises of Survindar Ganjhu at McCluskieganj,about 40 miles northwest of the capital city of Jharkhand, Ranchi.
NIA sleuths were reportedly holding raids in connection with the alleged associates and fund suppliers to the absconding Maoist, Ravindra Ganjhu who is considered close to Survindar Ganjhu.
The case of Ravindra Ganjhu pertains to the arrest of several leaders and members of the proscribed Maoist CPI( Maoist) organisation and seizure of arms and ammunition last year.That time operation was carried out at Lohardaga in Jharkhand.
After November 2, 2023, during an operation, the lJharkhand police and the Central Reserve Police Force personnel had found about a meeting of CPI (Maoist) members, including self-styled regional commander Ravindra Ganjhu, was held in the forest area of Jharkhand.
Subsequently, NIA found that Ravindra Ganjhu had invested funds obtained through extortion and ‘levy’( illegal collection) from several local contractors and businessmen.
Prior to this, on December 29, 2022, another CPI( Maoist) Aman Ganjhu had surrendered before Jharkhand police and CRPF personnel in Ranchi.
The local police had registered a case against 17 accused persons and unidentified members of the CPI (Maoist) on February 21, 2022. The NIA took over the case on June 14, 2022. Subsequently, it found that a house in Latehar had been illegally constructed by Ganjhu.
This house was confiscated. NIA is on record claiming that his confiscated house in Lohardaga was built with the active involvement of his close associate and co-accused, Raju Kumar, also known as Raju Sahu, son of late Birendra Prasad...,” it is learnt.
As per NIA records, the accused Ravindra Ganjhu is involved in more than 55 cases registered at various police stations across Jharkhand. The State government has declared a reward of ₹15 lakh for information leading to his arrest, while the NIA has announced an additional reward of ₹15 lakh.
Since Ravindra Ganjhu who remains beyond the reach of the law enforcing agencies,is considered a “terror supreme” in the coal belt of Jharkhand, NIA is in search of him and his associates’s sources of fund including Ranthu Oraon and his gang members.
