Giridih Police has arrested five dreaded CPI (Maoists) activists belonging to the “Chirag daasta” in raids conducted during a late Thursday night operation by the district police and CRPF from Tisari and Gawa areas.
Giridih Superintendent of police Kranti Kumar Garidesi told The Pioneer that the police have also recovered 25 kg ammonium nitrate, 24 piece detonators, one local made pistol and four live cartridges from them. Police also recovered one Bolero jeep, and motorcycle .The arrested extremists have been identified as Aagstin Handas of Godda, Banwari Marandi of residents Bhelwaghati, and Adhik Yadav alias Sushil Yadav, while two others are Tej Narayan Rai and Ashok Kumar, who are residents of Satgawa and Ashokmanjwa village in Koderma district.
During the preliminary interrogation, they confessed to their involvement in a number of cases related to arson and recent murder of one youth, who belongs to Jorasimar village — the SP said. The police extracted information from them about the future activities of the outfit in the state .The police also elicited information about the cross-border activities of the rebels in the neighboring states Bihar, and Chhatisgrah, the sources added We are still interrogating the Maoists to get more information -said a police official of Giridih.
Giving a detailed account of the search operation, the SP said that a couple of days ago the cadres had planned a meeting at village Tisari. However the police got a tip off and launched combing operation to nab the extremists.
Meanwhile, police station in-charge got a tip of that two Maoists identified as Tej Narayan and Ashok Kumar who were going to receive three others Maoists Aagstin Handas,Banwari Marandi and Adhik Yadav .The police forces swung into action and nabbed the three rebels and recovered one local made pistol and four lice cartridges from them. An interrogation is going on, sources said.