Jharkhand Director-General of Police T P Sinha's complaint about alleged threat calls from Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and harassment of his family in Patna by the state police drew RJD retaliation, with the party seeking a CBI inquiry into the DGP's conduct in bailing out his relative found guilty of selling stolen coal.

In a letter to union home minister L K Advani, the RJD national spokesman, Shivanand Tiwari, charged Sinha with pressuring the police to bail out his nephew, Deepak Lala, proprietor of Basanti Mata hard coke enterprises of Dhanbad, whose firm was found guilty of selling coal stolen from Bharat Coking Coal Limited worth over Rs 14.75 lakh in 1999.

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A joint team of the Central Industrial Security Force and the police had recovered huge quantity of coal from the premises of Lala at Harwa Adda in Dhanbad district of undivide Bihar on 25.9.99.

Bureau Report