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The Leader of the Opposition successful the Jharkhand Assembly, Babulal Marandi, connected Sunday (May 10, 2026) wrote a missive to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the alleged nexus betwixt the constabulary and criminals, with peculiar notation to gangster Prince Khan of Wasseypur successful Dhanbad.
Mr. Marandi accused the State constabulary of supporting an organised extortion web and demanded the contiguous removal of Dhanbad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prabhat Kumar.
“Recently, notorious gangster Prince Khan released videos from overseas connected societal media regarding the Dhanbad police, ember theft and extortion network, which person formed superior doubts connected the credibility of the State. Two videos person been compiled connected a DVD and are being enclosed with this missive truthful that the authorities whitethorn recognize the gravity of the facts presented,” Mr. Marandi said.
In the videos, Khan allegedly levelled superior allegations against the Dhanbad SSP, accusing him of supporting ember and onshore mafias and threatening businessmen. Following tribunal orders, the constabulary person started proceedings to connect Khan’s spot successful Wasseypur. The constabulary have claimed that Khan is operating his web from Pakistan.
“This substance serves arsenic a question people implicit the precise strategy that claims to guarantee nationalist information and justice. Normally, it is the constabulary who exposure criminals, but successful Jharkhand, it is gangsters who are exposing the alleged nefarious activities of constabulary officials,” Mr. Marandi said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person added that the allegations against the Dhanbad SSP onslaught astatine the impartiality and credibility of the full constabulary machinery. The erstwhile Chief Minister claimed that the concern successful Dhanbad appeared arsenic though the regularisation of instrumentality did not beryllium and was replaced alternatively by a conflict for supremacy betwixt 2 parallel gangs.
“The rivalry appears to beryllium implicit who volition workout greater power implicit Dhanbad’s ember resources, trade, and economical activities,” helium said.
In the letter, Mr. Marandi referred to allegations successful the videos regarding attempts to facilitate amerciable seizure of onshore belonging to the mediocre and the alleged nexus betwixt the mining mafia and constabulary officers. “If determination is adjacent a tiny magnitude of information successful these allegations, it signifies not simply a constabulary nonaccomplishment but a nonaccomplishment of the full system,“ helium said.
Mr. Marandi claimed that Dhanbad was accelerated becoming the epicentre of a parallel extortion web and said that fixed the gravity of the allegations, the full substance should beryllium investigated by the NIA to guarantee a fair, transparent, and credible enquiry to guarantee nationalist trust.
Attacking the State government, Mr. Marandi said that if the extortion-driven networks and governmental patronage continued unabated, Jharkhand would descend into a authorities worse than “Jungle Raj.”
