RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, May 12: Former chief minister and BJP legislature party chief Babulal Marandi has requested the Jharkhand Police, the ED director and the union home ministry to take cognizance of the delay in arresting gangster Dahu Yadav, an accused in the Rs 1000 crore illegal mining case.
Marandi has said through a tweet suggesting that the police is afraid of arresting Yadav as the latter has threatened to reveal the name of each and every government and non-government shareholder of proceeds of crime, including the chief minister’s representative Pankaj Mishra.
“Sources reveal that the police are not arresting the criminal Dahu Yadav, a member of #Gags_of_Sahibganj gang, because on being caught, he has threatened to openly tell everything to @dir_ed about all the government-non-government partners in the loot, including the mastermind, Pankaj Mishra. Due to Dahu’s warning, the police and administration officers who have been a part of Dahu’s crime and black earnings are gasping for breath,” the tweet reads.
“This is the reason why the police only just completed a minor formality of attachment and confiscation of Dahu’s property. His other properties, including his White House, Hotel and the disputed houses in his possession, have not even been touched. On the other hand, Dahu with the help of police is harassing those people who are the ED witnesses against him or helping witnesses. We are told that an aide of the woman who lodged a complaint with the ED against Dahu in the Sweety Palace case has been arrested by the police and she is being threatened with death if she does not turn hostile to the ED. @JharkhandPolice DGP and @dir_ed take note of this. @HMOIndia,” the tweet further reads.
A few days ago, Marandi dared chief Hemant Soren to arrest Yadav, informing Soren about Yadav’s whereabouts.
There is an allegation on Dahu Yadav that he used to run the steamer of M/s Infralink Logistics Private Limited in an illegal manner.
The ED has seized Infralink’s steamer in connection with the March 23 accident and illegal stone chips transportation. It was run under the supervision of Dahu Yadav and his brother Sunil Yadav. Pankaj Mishra is accused of extorting Rs 500 per truck from trucks carrying stone chips with the help of steamers.
Bachchu Yadav had accepted this in his statement given to the ED. Apart from illegal mining, the ED had also accepted case numbers 63/21, 28/22 and 29/22 registered against Dahu Yadav and Sunil Yadav under section 307 of IPC and section 27 of Arms Act.
