Giridih police in a joint operation with CRPF have nabbed a hardcore CPI Maoist rebel Kishore Barnwal, who was absconding for 12 years after allegedly abducting and murdering a sub-inspector and a SAT jawan, police said on Sunday.
The Bhelwaghati police of the district got this success on Saturday morning when Barnwal had reached Bhelwaghati police station area in Salayatand village to meet a special acquaintance.
Meanwhile, Bhelwaghati police station in-Charge Prashant Kumar made a tremendous siege of that area of Salayatand after receiving secret information of Kishore Barnwal and succeeded in nabbing the Maoists.
However, on seeing the police, the Maoist tried to escape but the police cordon remained quite strong.
After being nabbed early in the morning, the Bhelwaghati police station handed over Maoist Kishore Barnwal to Sono police station in Jamui district.
According to the information available with police, the police of both the districts are considering the arrest of Kishore Barnwal as a big success.
Police sources said that hardcore Maoist Kishore is a resident of Sono police station area of Jamui district.
There is no reward announced against this hardcore Maoist in Giridih-Jamui nor is there any Naxalite case registered against it in Giridih.
Police sources said that in the year 2009, the Maoist abducted an SI posted in Sono police station and a SAT jawan and brutally killed both of them. Since then he was on the run. According to police sources, Barnwal was earlier associated with the squad of slain zonal commander Chirag Da of Jamui and Giridih. But after the death of Chirag da in an encounter with security forces, Kishore Barnwal was included in Baleshwar Koda’s squad on the instructions of top leaders of the organization.
According to the information shared by security forces, Baleshwar Koda is a member of the regional zonal committee, a Maoist organisation of the border zone of Munger and Jamui in Bihar.