ED attaches assets worth ₹ 2.03 in a Left-Wing Extremism case of Jharkhand

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Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a complaint against three left-wing extremists for extorting coal traders and contractors in Jharkhand. The complaint has been filed the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) before a special court in Ranchi.

ED attaches movable assets including vehicles held in the name of Bindeshwar Ganjhu @ Bindu Ganjhu and his firm M/s Maa Gange Coal Trading Private Limited worth ₹ 2.03 crore in a Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) case of Jharkhand.

— ED (@dir_ed) February 26, 2021

The Three firms run by extremists of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of banned outfit CPI(Maoist), collected funds through extortion from coal traders, contractors and transports in Jharkhand’s Magadh Amrapali coal block area. They have been booked on charges of money laundering.

On November 1, 2016 An FIR was filed in this regard at the Tandwa police station in Jharkhand’s Chatra district. The accused had been booked under sections 414, 384, 386, 387 and 120-B of the IPC (1860) along with sections 25(1-B)A, 26 and 35 of the Arms Act and Section 17(1)(2) of the CLA Act.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the case after two chargesheets had been filed against TPC members Binod Kumar Ganjhu, Pradeep Ram and Bindeshwar Ganjhu.