The Superintendent of Police of Hazaribagh Manoj Kaushik on Tuesday felicitated some officers and jawans with the cash reward in his office chamber. They were felicitated for arresting Naveen Manjhi, a hardcore Naxal, on which Government had announced cash prize. The sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors involved in his arrest operation got Rs 25,000 each while the jawans got Rs 15,000 each.
After felicitating the cops the SP said that the Jharkhand Government had kept a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh on the arresting of hardcore Maoist and Zonal commander Manjhi. The then SP Pankaj Kamboj had constituted a team of 49 officers and jawans to nab Manjhi.
The team first prepared a foolproof plan to trap the hardcore Naxal commander. In the month of March 2012 they succeeded as they arrested Manjhi from the forests of Vishnugarh police station of Hazaribagh district.
SP informed that after being nabbed Naveen disclosed many secrets of his organisation and also described the complete working style of Naxal groups these days. A week before the district police administration received the award money of Rs 10 lakhs from the State Government. On Tuesday that amount of reward was distributed among all the 49 members of that special team.
The then officer in-charge of Vishnugarh police station Ramdayal Munda and Sub-inspector Mahendra Das received Rs 25,000 each as reward. The jawans who were present in the SP chamber to get the award were Constable Sri Kant Pandey, Rana Jagbahadur Singh, Pramod Singh, Pawan Kumar, Md. Israfil, Hari shankar Tiwary and Satyadev Singh. They all received Rs 15,000 each. On this occasion the Sergeant Major of Police line Rajendra Singh was also present.