The Giridih police on Monday brought six hardcore Maoists, including three priests, arrested from different forest areas under Pirtand police station areas.
Among the three Maoists arrested, Prashant Manjhi, Prabha Di alias Prabha Soren and Sudhir Kisku were carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh each on their head.
Sudhir Kisku belongs to Kali Pahari village of Shikaripada police station area of Dumka. While Prashant and his wife Prabha Soreon belong to Joshi Tola of the Pirtand police station area.
During a press conference here on Monday, SP Amit Renu said that Prabha Soren's arrest has been made from her maternal uncle’s home. At the same time, three other Hardcore Maoists Ranjit Tudu and Chhotu Lal Hansda are residents of Tesafuli and Dholkatta villages of Madhuban police station. While the bright Ganjhu hails from Mucharu village of Pannak police station area of Bokaro district.
Madhuban CRPF Commandant Achuthanand, Deputy Commandant Moolchand along with ASP Gulshan Tirkey and DSP Pramod Mishra were also present in the press conference.
The SP said that on the basis of secret information, during the joint operation of police and CRPF, these Maoists were arrested from Banaso and Manjira villages of Pirtand police station.
Based on the information, on the instructions of SP, separate teams were formed and a search operation was conducted in both the villages and during the search operation, these Maoists were captured with weapons.
The SP said that in the search operation at Banaso and Manjira villages of Pirtand, security forces Maoists with one AK 47-rifle with 195 pieces of live cartridges and two magazines, two with regular carbines. In addition to the magazine, 72 pieces of live cartridges, two chips, Sony company recorders, Naxalite uniforms, leaflets and a diary, two letters were recovered for activities related to the Naxalite organization.
While a 16 point rifle from Dumka, two magazines with SLR rifle, 135 pieces live cartridges, two INSAS rifles, 50 live cartridges, three-net three rifles including one magazine, one rifle of 315 bore, one thousand pieces detonator recovered.
According to the SP, the M16 rifle recovered at the behest of Sudhir Kisku is quite modern. It is said that a letter was also recovered from these Maoists to the team. In which there is a mention of anti-CRPF camp slogans under construction in Parvatpur of Khukra police station area.
There are 32 cases against Prashant and 3 cases against Prabha Soren, while 23 cases have been registered against Sudhir Kisku. The case of late SP Amarjeet Balihar is the biggest in this.