On the instructions of the Director General of Police and Inspector General of Police, Jharkhand, the continuous anti-Naxal campaign 'Operation Korgo' in Lohardaga district, a special raid operation against the banned militant organization CPI (Maoist) on December 28, 29, 30, was quite successful, said SP, Lohardaga, R Ramkumar said these things while addressing the press on Saturday. He said that a sub-zonal commander was killed in the operation. And a big Naxalite was caught. Along with this, a huge stock of IEDs, weapons and cartridges were recovered.
It was informed that Ravindra Ganjhu, the regional commander of banned militant organisation CPI (Maoist) and members of his armed squad CB Pahan, alias Chandrabhan Pahan and Govind Birjia, Sheetal Mochi, Lajim Ansari, Rajan and 10-15 armed squad members. Against this, a joint operation was conducted with Lohardaga Police and CRPF 158 Battalion in the forest of village Korgo under Bagju police station of Lohardaga district.
The members of the said extremist organization armed with deadly weapons had assembled in the forest of Korgo under the police station of Lohardaga district. In the light of this Operation Korgo plan was prepared under the leadership of Police Captain R Ramkumar in coordination with Rahul Kumar, Commandant of CRPF 158 Battalion. Along with the said team, raids were conducted against the militants in Korgo and nearby forests. Ravindra Ganjhu's squad started firing indiscriminately on seeing the police in the Korgo forests.
Police retaliated in self-defense by taking safe cover. The militants managed to escape by taking advantage of the jungle hill. After that, a search operation was conducted in the Korgo forest by the campaign team, in the course of the search, the police found one militant in injured condition and one militant was arrested. On asking the name and address of both the extremists, they told their names as Govind Birijiya and Chandrabhan Pahan alias C.B. Pahan. Wounded militant Chandraman Pahan died on the way while being taken for treatment. When the police searched the area, weapons and cartridges, Naxalite papers, mobile phones, medicines, two pittu containing items of daily use were recovered from the injured militant and the arrested militant.
The dead militant Chandrabhan Pahan was identified by the family members and the post-mortem was conducted by the Medical Board at Sadar Hospital Lohardaga. Arrested at the instance of militant Govind Viranjia, a large cache of arms, bullets, cane bombs, detonators, codex bayer, mobile phones, pithu containing medicines and all items of daily use have been recovered. Two separate cases have been registered in this regard at Bagdu police station, Lohardaga.
The expedition team included Superintendent of Police R Ramkumar, Commandant of CRPF 158 Battalion Rahul Kumar, Senior Deputy Superintendent of Police (Operation) Deepak Kumar Pandey, SK Pal, 2 IC Ops 158 Battalion, Sub-Divisional Police Officer Vashisht Narayan Singh, Assistant Commandant of CRPF 158 Battalion Ashiq Ali, District Police Force, CRPF including Dr. Ranjit Kumar, Chief Medical Officer, Lohardaga Sadar police station in-charge Inspector Anil Oraon, Bagdu police station in-charge Vishwajit Kumar Singh, Bhandra police station in-charge Gautam Kumar, SI Sujit Kumar Singh, Pesharar police station in-charge Akhtar Ali, ASI Sanjay Kumar Officers and jawans of 158 Battalion and Jharkhand Jaguar were involved.
A large quantity of arms and ammunition including INSAS and SLR rifles were recovered.
INSAS Rifle 01 (One) SLR Rifle 01 (One), 303 Rifle 02 (Two), Semi-Automatic Rifle 01 (One), Live Cartridge 609 (Six Hundred Nine), Cane Bomb 200 (Two Hundred) Pieces (Destroyed by BDDST Gaya), codex wire about 200 meters, detonator 10 pieces (destroyed by BDDS team), country made pistol loaded (with magazine) 01 (one), country made katta 01 (one), khokha 08 (eight), Naxalite papers, mobile phone , Two pitoos containing items of daily use. Police Captain R Ramkumar and CRPF 158 Battalion Commandant Rahul Kumar jointly felicitated the officers and jawans involved in the Operation Korgo Special Operations Team.