A 26-year-old Maoist, wanted in Jharkhand for ambushing a police patrol party in 2014, was arrested in the national Capital. ChandeshwarYadav, carrying a reward of Rs5 lakh, was taken into custody by the sleuths of Special Cell following a tip off from west Delhi’s Kapashera area on Sunday late night.
Yadav, the sub-zonal commander of banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M), hails from Bihar’s Gaya District. He was absconding after carrying out an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast and firing in an ambush on a patrolling police party on December 23, 2014. One policeman had died and another was injured in the attack at Itkhori town in Chatra District.
DCP, Special Cell, Sanjeev Yadav said, Yadav was the key executioner of the ambush. The security forces were on Yadav’s trail after the ambush, but he had been elusive and had shifted to Delhi in March. Reward of Rs5 lakh was declared for his arrest by the Jharkhand Government.
The DCP said Yadav had taken shelter in a Kapashera colony where most of the dwellers are from Bihar and Jharkhand. He joined the Maoist group in 2013 to avenge his thrashing by his uncle over a dispute over a cattle shed.
In May 2014, he was taken to the Baroti jungles by a senior Maoist Kaushal where he met Indal Singh and Alok Yadav, two other senior Maoists, who indoctrinated him in the Maoist philosophy. Soon, he became an important figure of the CPI-M organisation and began visiting villages to spread the banned organisation’s message.
Yadav born in Bihar’s Gaya District assisted his family in farming. Since the income from agriculture was meager, in March 2013, he purchased an auto to supplement his family income. While driving auto as a livelihood, Chandeshwar had a dispute over cattle shed with his real uncle and soon, this dispute took an ugly shape, when he was thrashed by his uncle and his family members.
Seeking revenge, Yadav went to one Kaushal Yadav, a relative, who is a senior Maoist Commander and recruiter and is a native of Yadav’s village. Kaushal encouraged him to join banned Maoist outfit and promised him that if he will have the power of gun by his side, all his enemies will start respecting him. On this promise, Yadav joined Kaushal Yadav and took oath as a member of the banned Maoist outfit.