Garhwa police have arrested an area commander of TPC at village Kitasoti under same police station, on Friday.
According to Garhwa SP Priyadarshi Alok, acting on a tip of Garhwa police led by officer-in-charge Niranjan Kumar raided the village Kitasoti and arrested TPC extremist Birendra Baitha. Police also recovered one country-made pistol, two live cartridges, levy money of Rs 41,150, two mobile phone, one his bank pass book. Police also seized his XUB vehicle.
The SP claimed that arrested extremist had confessed his involvement in killing of one correspondent, a Forest officer and a cloth trader under Balrampur district of Chhatisgarh State.
Besides this, he was also involved in setting fire of a kendu leaf laden truck and kidnapping of headmaster under Chainpur police station of Palamu district.
Baitha earlier joined with the banned outfit, MCC. later he left the MCC organisation and joined TPC.
SP said under Operation Toofan led by himself arrested a hardcore Maoist at village Khapari Mahaua under Bhandariya police station. Police also recovered a country-made gun from him.