With the help of Garhwa police, Balrampur (Chhatisgarh) Police arrested one of the most wanted naxal Rajendra Singh Kharwar and four others.
Police also seized large number of arms ammunition and levy money from them.According to Garhwa SP Priyadarshi Alok, following the inputs from Palamu Range DIG Saket Kumar Singh, the joint team of the two States arrested the five naxal under Balrampur police station area.
Police have also recovered four 315 rifles one country made sten gun, 64 live cartridges, six uniforms, 14 mobile phones, 19 SIM cards, two bikes and `65,000 cash from them.
The SP added that Kharwar, a resident of Udaipur village under Ramkanda police station, was an active Maoist till 2008. After getting released from the jail he formed a criminal organisation and starting levy collection and extortion.
Arrested naxals are Rajendra Singh Kharwar, Vishanu Gupta, Vakeel Chaudhry, Sunil Singh and Guddu Singh.