Keeping in view the Jharkhand election, while CRPF 19 Battalion Assistant Commandant Sunil Jadav and Bisra IIC SK Das with DVF were conducting a search operation on Wednesday at about 3.30 am near Perbringa Pahad of Ranburu reserve forest, a six- member PlFI cadres ambushed on them and started firing.
They were led by one Akash Singh alias Ban. When the police responded with bullets, they fled to Jharkhand. However, the police succeeded to apprehend one Kaleshwer Bhuian (19) of Kudahudanga Ganjur Tolla village under Bisra police limits.
During the interrogation, he confessed to his involvement in many crimes including the murder of two Jharkhand-based cloth merchants Rajesh Choudhury and Biswanath Choudhury at Katepur bazar under Nuagaon block on June 22 last.
It may be mentioned here that the two cloth merchants had come to Bisra and Nuagaon area for cloth trading and their decomposed bodies were recovered which were buried in Gainjur jungle on June 25. Earlier on August 18, one Bhadra Singh (20), a PlFI member involved in the same murder case, was arrested by the police.
The police recovered cache of arms, besides mobile sets, SIM cards, chargers, a first aid kit bag, motor bike cable wire, PlFI dress, letter head, diary, blankets, torches, battery, medicines and a carry bag from Kaleshwer’s possession.