LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, Feb. 5: The Sahibganj police has sought judicial remand of stone miner Prakash Chandra Yadav alias Mungeri Yadav in the mobile recovery case.
The police has filed a petition before the Sahibganj court in this regard. Mungeri Yadav is currently lodged at the Sahibganj jail. He was arrested in an Arms Act case last year. He was also booked under the Crime Control Act.
The Sahibganj jail administration had lodged an FIR against him for illegally using a mobile phone inside the jail. He was lodged there from July 30 last year when the Sahibganj police arrested him near Birsa Munda domestic airport under Arms Act case.
The android mobile phone was seized on January 16 during the inspection. The jail administration claimed that the mobile phone was found near a cell. The administration further claimed that the investigation revealed that Prakash Chandra Yadav and another jail inmate Shobhit Yadav used this mobile phone. The FIR was lodged at the Jirawari police station in Sahibganj district. Notably, the district administration also booked Prakash Chandra Yadav alias Mungeri Yadav under Jharkhand Crime Control Act. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating the illegal stone mining scam in Sahibganj and Ankush Yadav who is son of Prakash Chandra Yadav is a witness of the agency. However, Prakash Chandra Yadav has challenged his detention under the Crime Control Act.
However, in a similar case involving illegal stone mining accused Pankaj Mishra, the Ranchi police and the Birsa Munda Central Jail authority have still not lodged any FIR. Pankaj Mishra is the MLA representative of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and the ED chargesheeted him along with power broker Prem Prakash and Bacchu Yadav.
In an affidavit submitted to the court, the ED stated that Pankaj Mishra during continued stay at RIMS since 27th July last year made 300 phone calls to various persons, including certain highly placed and influential people. He made these phone calls when he was under judicial custody in the illegal mining case.
Notably, in October last year the ED nabbed his two associates, Chandan Yadav and Suraj Pandit for allegedly providing him their mobile phones to Pankaj Mishra and he used to talk to different people.
The ED disclosed this before the special PMLA court of Prabhat Kumar Sharma while opposing his bail petition.
While in judicial custody at RIMS, Pankaj Mishra used as many as four such mobile phones to speak to various persons.
