Two teen-aged boys members of CPI-Maoist children squad were arrested from the lugu hillock regions and sent to the Child Remand Home in Bokaro district who were later rehabilitated.
Working on a tip-off, CRPS 26 battalion cops along with district police arrested two boys of 10 years belonging to the naxal squad said, police.
In the lugu hillock regions red rebels recruited teens, formed ‘child squad’ who works as courier for them. There are 18-19 minor children aged between 8 to 10 years active as naxal’s child squad; rebels used them to transport food stuffs including other needful things to them, arrested children told to the police.
Five months earlier the naxal rebels picked-up them form their homes and deployed in their child squad, teens revealed before the media and police. “Duos want to return back their home earliest,” said the police. Children were recruited for gathering intelligence about movement of security forces, collect and transport of food stuffs and to work as couriers, duos said to the media.
Notably, due to its geographical location ‘Jhumra’ and ‘lugu’ hillocks regions are still remembered as the breeding and training ground of CPI Maoists, hwere rebels are carrying all the naxal activities in Jharkhand. In a bid to flush out naxalism few new companies of CRPF would be deployed in the Jhumra region. The Jhumra zone includes over 145 villages which is about 23 km uphill from Rehawan village, houses more than 80 villages where more than 20,000 people live.
Red rebels triggering violence to establish their supremacy in these areas; Maoists always brand villagers as police informers and punish them, while the security cops aim to root out naxalism from these hillocks regions, he said.