Seven accomplices of CPI Maoists’ most dreaded and elusive Ravinder Ganjhu have been caught and jailed in Latehar on Monday.
Lining up the seven arrested persons DIG (In charge) of Palamu AV Homkar held a press conference in Chandwa under Latehar district where he gave details of the cracking of the Lukaiyya More attack of the CPI Maoists led by Ravinder Ganjhu on November 22, 2019 under Chandwa police station wherein one havildar and 3 jawans of the Home Guards had died in the PCR van and the Maoists had decamped with their weapons and ammunition then.
Latehar police caught the men behind the ambush and made recovery including Rs 5 lakh in cash which is a levy money collected by the Maoists from a Chandwa based contractor Sonu Singh.
Sources said TSPC and Maoists had begun to squeeze this new Government right from the very next day of Soren’s swearing in ceremony and 3 districts Palamu, Latehar and Hazaribag witnessed arsons by the TSPC and the Maoists .
Sources said a feeling had begun to grip the masses that exit of the BJP from the Government would mean come back of extremism but on Sunday arrest of 8 extremists including TSPC sub zonal commander Kartik and 4 extremists of JJMP and today Homkar’s description of the busting of this ambush case has bolstered the image not only of the police but of the Government as well.
SP Latehar Prashant Anand sent a press release issued in Homkar’s press conference which identified the 7 arrested as Baijnath, Kuarn, Rajesh, Sunil, Faguna, Sanjay and Naresh all 7 Ganjhus and from Chandwa police station.
Apart from recovery of 5 lakh in cash Latehar police led by its SP Anand recovered 40 rounds of fire of police which the Maoists had looted after slaying 4 cops, 8 looted charger of police,
blood stained clothes and pouches of slain cops buried in the Bouda jungle which were unearthed on the leads of the 7 arrested, 3 Aadhar card, 1 ATM card 1 Pass Book, 3 bikes used in the ambush, 5 cell phone sets and hand written bill of the Maoist.
An interception of a bike triggered by a precise tip off led to this unfolding of the ambush which the Maoists had carried out in the most planned manner with no chance o any cop but to die in the PCR van.
Homkar’s press release said Ravinder Ganjhu had a huge team then and was watching every movement and passing on tips to his men on a like talkie set.
Ravinder Ganjhu had 5 deadly armed men with him which launched the fatal assault on the PCR van while too many of them were in a spread out position to stall any rush of police then to the place of occurrence.
Ravinder Ganjhu had even celebrated this ambush by giving these 7 a sum of rupees 5,000 each and then retreated towards Beer Jangha Jungle.
On January 5 the Maoists had a plan to extract levy from a contractor which on a tip off Latehar police not only frustrated but netted 7 of Ravinder Ganjhu’s men who had confessed to their involvement in the ambush and these recoveries were made on the leads given by them too.
Sources said the State DGP K N Choubey thought it fit to rush in his DIG A V Homkar to Chandwa to break the busting of this case otherwise SPs have been doing this in fair weather.
Sources said Homkar had a word of laudation for Prashant Anand and 9 other officers who were a part of the Investigating Team set up to crack this ambush and then this 10 member team was further constricted to a deadly Raid Team which caught three men of Ravinder Ganjhu on January 5 and then got 4 more taking to total arrest to 7.