Supremo of Jharkhand Sangharsh Jan Mukti Morcha (JSJMM) Diwalee Ganjhu was killed in a daylight encounter between Chandwa police team and JSJMM ultras at village Keeta under Chandwa police station in latehar district on Saturday.
Confirming this latehar SP Anoop Birtharey said the encounter took place at 11 am on Saturday.
latehar SP sounded more confident when he said a small team of Chandwa police station carried out this operation which yielded the body of Ganjhu, the supremo of JSJMM in the retaliatory shots. Birtharey said the JSJMM ultras were the first to open fire at our cops’ four-wheeler which was damaged in the firing by the JSJMM extremists.
Birtharey further said Chandwa police got a tip-off on the presence of three extremists of JSJMM at Keeta and in a four-wheeler the team rushed to the village which is 15 Kms away from Chandwa police station.
However, in a swift, precise and meticulous operation the Chandwa police team brought down the supremo of JSJMM Diwalee Ganjhu. SP latehar reiterated it was their boys who did it. There was no any other force except the Chandwa police station force, he added.
Fighting JSJMM on its turf Keeta is no child’s play, said a source in police who reminded that this village has seen a genocide of seven adivasis in the early nineties here where the then MCC had unleashed this terror.
Police sources said if Teesibar in Palamu is the birth place of major extremism Keeta in latehar is the birth place of this splinter group which till the undivided Bihar was patronized by the police to check mate the Maoists. Police sources said under dispensation of CM Raghubar Das and DGP D K Pandey the police in Jharkhand are making no distinction with any naxal outfit.
As this encounter lasted for five to seven minutes DIG police Palamu Saket Kumar Singh was approached for his comments who then said ' Splinter groups like JSJMM, PlFI, TPC JPC have no spine to fight our boys and when ever there is the eruption of firing these cadres flee as fast as they can'. Here too two of the surviving ultras of JSJMM fled .
SP latehar said the three ultras of JSJMM had ammunition of 10 to 15 rounds left as they had fired 7 to 8 rounds in which one of their supremo Diwalee Ganjhu was flattened the two escaped in the forest of Saal trees where this day light encounter took place.
DGP D K Pandey has awarded the Chandwa police station team with one lakh of rupees.
Sources said splinter groups are now in the firing line of the police. One PlFI head Bindesh Yadav alias Amrit was killed in encounter with Panki police in Palamu near Hurlong. And on Saturday JSJMM supremo lost his life in fight with the police.
Sources said as it is March month splinter groups are in a tragic haste to collect as much levy as possible.
About these three JSJMM ultras one of which was so gunned down SP latehar said the JSJMM's main pre occupation is to collect money by coercion like extortion, levy
Birtharey further told the Pioneer that in other operation against CPI Maoists in latehar Manika's Hesalbar forest district police and CobRA have seized a rifle where the operation against the Maoists is on.
Birtharey said squads of Maoists top guns like Sarwan and Dipak have sneaked in this region whom the security forces are trying to smoke out.