The team of security men, consisting of personnel of the CRPF with ASP Sanjay Kumar, Jharkhand Armed police and the Bokaro district police with SDPO Rajkumar Mehta, on Saturday night entered the jungles of Upperghat in Nawadih block of the Bokaro and launched a massive combing operation against the Maoists, police sources said .
Several Maoists were arrested by the police there on the last anti-Maoists operation at Jhumra hill areas .Police sources informed that Jhumra and Upperghat forest areas of the district has become a safe hideout for the Maoists cadres as well as the leftist rebel from other districts ,Jhumra hill of Bokaro stretches from Hazaribagh to Parashnath giving free and easy access to the extremists to the three districts .
Recently, the CPI (Maoists) held a training camp for its cadres at Madhuwan hilly station .Despite intelligence reports providing information about the increasing activities in the Nawadih areas .Sources said ,as extremist activities increased in the Upperghat recently ,the police higher –ups decided to act and launch the combing operation .
Keeping in view the increased movement of the cadres of the CPI (Maoists),the top brass of the police has also placed Bokaro Thermal and Pannak-Narayanpur police station on high alert .We are conducting long and short range patrols on war footing to check all kinds of movement of the Maoists in the areas, stated ASP Abhiyan Sanjay Kumar and SDPO Raj Kumar Mehta .
However, no reports of any untoward incident was reported from any place till late on Monday evening.