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Ex-municipality chairman among five held for extortion of truckers
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|June 20, 2025
LAKHANPUR police on Wednesday night arrested five persons including former chairman of Brajrajnagar municipality Kishor Agarwal for allegedly extorting money from truck drivers loading coal at Lakhanpur opencast mines.
Apart from prime accused Agarwal (65) of Lamtibahal, his associates Stifen Paramanik, Amarendar Singh, Sujit Kerketta and Sashi Dhar Chouhan were arrested under sections 296, 308 (6), and 61 (2) of BNS.
The arrests were made on the basis of a complaint filed by one Sunny Ram (36), a truck driver of Simdega in Jharkhand, alleging coercion and threats by the accused.
Ram filed the complaint on June 18 alleging that the accused demanded ₹145 per truckload to affix a seal on loading slips, essential for issuing challans.
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