Supplementary chargesheet filed against 5 Maoists

PATNA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a supplementary chargesheet in a special court here against five Maoists of north Bihar in connection with a terror funding case.

Special NIA public prosecutor Manoj Kumar Sinha said the supplementary chargesheet was filed against Umesh Yadav, Musafir Sahni, Dilip Sahni, Kamlesh Bhagat and Sanjay Ram. “Earlier, the NIA had filed chargesheet against Anil Ram and his associate Dilip Ram in connection with the case,” he said.

Sinha said the supplementary chargesheet has been filed under sections 120 (concealing offence punishable with imprisonment), 121A (conspiracy to commit offence), 386 (extortion by fear of death or grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other relevant sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

While Musafir was commander of Trihut zone of CPI (Maoist), Anil was sub-zonal commander under him. Anil was responsible for collection of extortion money from construction firms and traders of north Bihar. The rest five were associates of Musafir and Anil.

Musafir and Anil were arrested from Muzaffapur on May 11, 2017 and March 17, 2018, respectively. The Special Task Force had recovered Rs 8.93 lakh in cash, detonators, banned literatures, receipts, several sale deeds of flats, plots and ownership documents of two trucks from Anil’s hideout.

STF sources said the money collected through extortion was being supplied to the rebel outfit to carry out insurgent activities. The NIA had recently attached properties of Anil at different locations in Muzaffarpur.