VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, Dec. 6: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) strongly doubts Sahibganj DSP Rajendra Dubey must be involved in scuttling a probe against Pankaj Mishra in the Vijay Hansda case also.
As the Sahibganj police was forced to lodge the FIR of Vijay Hansda in the illegal mining case against Pankaj Mishra following a controversy, Rajendra Dubey instead of investigating this case issued notice to Hansda’s aide Prashuram Kumar Yadav for questioning.
Prashuram Kumar Yadav is the person who met Hansda in jail and made all necessary arrangements which enabled Hansda to approach the court and stated that he never withdrew his complaint against Pankaj Mishra. And what Sahibganj police is claiming is completely untrue. Vijay Hansda is a witness of the agency against Pankaj Mishra in the illegal stone mining case worth Rs. 1000 crore.
“Vijay Hansda lodged a complaint against Pankaj Mishra for carrying illegal mining in his locality. As per the statement, Pankaj Mishra assaulted him and abused his identity as a tribal. Prashuram Yadav has nothing to do with that case. But now the police want to question him and this is very strange and intriguing. The ED has summoned him for questioning on December 8,” said well-placed sources.
Vijay Hansda is a witness of the agency in the money laundering case against Pankaj Mishra and his fresh statements and reopening of his complaint will have a bearing upon the ongoing money laundering investigation. Apparently, the district police have summoned Parshuram Yadav to know who influenced Vijay Hansda to reopen this case when the matter was closed.
A native of Sahibganj, Vijay Hansda is currently lodged in the Sahibganj jail and he had lodged a court complaint against Pankaj Mishra, the MLA representative of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, for allegedly carrying illegal stone mining. But despite a court order, the Sahibganj police did not lodge the FIR. The DIG of Dumka range instead claimed that Vijay Hansda withdrew his complaint as false hence the FIR was not lodged. Later on, Vijay Hansda with the help of his aide Prashuram Kumar Yadav, approached the local court and contradicted the claim of the police. He said that he was arrested in a false criminal case out of revenge for lodging a complaint against Pankaj Mishra. He said that the police had taken his signatures on plain papers and the same were used to forge documents to withdraw the case.
