In a major success in its anti-Naxal operation ,the Bokaro Police on Tuesday evening nabbed one hardcore Maoist from Siyari forest area of the Bermo sub-division. The arrested Maoist has been identified as Sankar Murmu alias Sanjay jee .
The Maoist Sankar Murmu, police said, has confessed his involvement in three an encounters with the police, attack on the police party and arms lootings cases at Chauparan, latehar and Gola. The security forces have also recovered one double barrel gun, mobile sets and Naxali literatures and dozen live cartridges from him.
A resident of Hazaribagh, Sankar Murmu alias Sanjay Jee was arrested by the police in wee hours of Tuesday, while he was on way to Jhumra. Police sources said, Sankar, who was wanted by the Ramgrah, Chatra, Hazaribagh and latehar police in several cases and had shifted his centre of activity from Hazaribagh to Jhumra, Bokaro for last few months has made major revelation about the network of the Naxalite organisation
Sankar Murmu under detention has also given vital information regarding the working of the outlawed organisation. The massive combing operation under taken by Bokaro police seems to have pushed extremists of the outlawed Maoists to the wall. Police launched massive crackdown, smashed several bunkers bunkers recently and recovered huge caches arms and ammunition, which further broke the backbone of extremists’ successive operation on the Jhumra Hill.