The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested an absconding CPI (Maoist) terrorist in the case of seizure of large scale arms and ammunition in Giridih, Jharkhand in 2018.
The arrested accused Singhrai Soren, 55, is a resident of village Akbakitand under Dumri police station of Giridih in a case pertaining to seizure of arms and ammunition.
The arrested accused is being produced before the Special NIA Court, Ranchi, the NIA said.
The case pertains to the seizure of huge cache of arms and ammunition and arrest of 15 armed cadres of CPI (Maoist) at Akbakitand village.
Subsequently, the NIA had re-registered the said case on May 9, 2018 and taken over the investigation of the case.
"Investigation has established that accused Singhrai Soren, an armed cadre of CPI (Maoist), a proscribed terrorist organization, had criminally conspired with other members of CPI (Maoist) with the intention to promote their terrorist activities," the NIA said in a statement. Soren was also regularly harbouring the cadres of CPI (Maoist) at his residential premises and was also instrumental in concealing prohibited arms and ammunition and explosives substances, it alleged.
The NIA had filed chargesheet against 10 accused persons, including Soren, on August 31, 2018 and another supplementary chargesheet against seven accused persons on January 8, 2019 in this case.