Dhanbad: Police have sent teams to different places outside the district to nab those involved in the murder of JVM's Dhanbad youth wing president Ranjit Kumar Singh on Tuesday.

Rural SP Ashutosh Shekhar, who is heading a special investigation team constituted by Dhanbad police to probe the case that has acquired political dimension, said, "We are working on the leads but nobody has yet been arrested."

On Wednesday night, police lodged an FIR against Prince Khan (nephew of jailed mafia don Fahim Khan), Rajesh Chauhan, a shooter of a Wasseypur gang and a resident of Godhar, and Bittu Rawani, younger son of trade union leader Late Napal Rawani.

The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint by deceased Ranjit's elder brother Sanjay. Police also took the statement Ranjit's driver Munna Khan. "We have lodged FIR against several people and our teams are already on the job at different places outside the district," Dhanbad SSP Manoj Ratan Chothe said.

Incidentally, the deceased during his meeting with Chothe on August 21, had apprised him about the extortion calls that he had been receiving since August 8 in the name of gangs of Wasseypur. The caller had allegedly asked Ranjit to Rs 5 per tonne of coal transported from Kusunda railway siding where he worked as a site in-charge for BKP Transport.

The district unit of JVM has demanded the immediate arrest of the accused and termed the police action as an eyewash.

"The youth wing of the party will burn the effigy of chief minister Raghubar Das in Dhanbad for creating a situation of lawlessness," JVM district president Gyan Ranjan Sinha said, adding that they will also demand compensation and job for the dependants of the deceased from the management of BKP Transport.

Ranjit was shot dead by unidentified persons near Kusunda railway crossing on Tuesday while he was coming to Dhanbad in his car.