Lohardaga District Police Force has arrested three rebels of banned extremist organization PLFI with two country made pistols and six live cartridges. SDPO Vashishtha Narayan Singh said that among the arrested Naxalites, Kaushal Kumar Yadav is a resident of Balsokra, Chanho Ranchi in Ranchi district. Deepak Yadav is a resident of Lohardaga's Kairo police station area and Kushal Yadav is a resident of Serum, Balumath police station area of Latehar. The age of all three is between 19 and 23 years, along with the mobiles were snatched from the labourers working during the canal construction in Kairo Bhandra Seaman and posters were also displayed threatening to stop the work if levy is not received.
The SDPO said that all the three rebels work for Krishna Yadav, the mastermind of PLFI. On April 8, he was involved in many incidents including throwing bombs, playing posters, setting machines on fire and spreading terror in stone mines of Makandu in Kuru police station area. They had carried out the incident of assault and snatching of mobiles from the labourers in Kairo police station area, in view of the increasing activities of PLFI, the police had increased surveillance and patrolling. On the night of May 7 at around 1:30 pm, Deepak was stopped on suspicion. On checking them, a pistol and cartridges were recovered from him. On the spot of these two, their associate Kushal Yadav was arrested from Latehar police station area, DSP Abhiyan Deepak Kumar Pandey, SDPO Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Kudu police station in-charge Vishwajit Kumar Singh, Sub-Inspector Technical Branch in-charge Abhinav Kumar, Prem in the campaign to arrest Naxalites. Prakash and SAT police personnel were involved.