Ranchi police, in a joint operation of Ranchi, latehar and Gumla police along with the CRPF on Wednesday four CPI (Maoist) rebels were arrested from the jungles of Bero bordering Gumla and lohardaga. The police said that that a huge cache of arms and ammunitions has also been recovered from them.
The search operation was on till the report was being filed late in the evening.“Four CPI (Maoist) cadres have been arrested during the joint operation which still
continues and we expect a few more will soon be in our net as we have concrete information that some of them are still hiding in the forests,” Ranchi SSP Prabhat Kumar.
The ultras have been cornered from all the sides and it will not be possible for them to sneak away from there, he added.
The name of any of the arrested rebel however, has not been disclosed by the police due to security reasons. The police are likely to disclose the names by Thursday.
“After getting inputs that some red ultras had been spotted in the area, a joint operation from all the three sides was launched so that they do not get a chance to sneak away from any of the sides, taking advantage of the dense forests,” said the police.
As the police are expecting more to be recovered from the area, the operation continued till late in the night. “There are still some chances of further recovery as some of them have managed to escape from the spot leaving behind their arms,” said the SSP.