Bokaro police have arrested a hardcore Naxal at Jamunia forest area in Nawadih block under the Pannk-Narayanpur police station in Bokaro district on Thursday, an official said.
A team of, Pannk-Narayanpur, police of Bokaro apprehended the forest area of Upparghat, identified as Chandu Manjhi near Jamunia forest area under the Pannk –Narayanpur police area, the SP said.
Based on specific inputs, the team was out on a search operation in the forest area of Upparghat located around 50 km from district headquarter here, the police official said.
When the police personnel were cordoning off a forest patch near Nawadih, they nabbed the naxal Chandu Manjhi but police could not recover any arms and explosives, sources said. Chandu Manjhi was active as a member of the local organisation squad which operate under Nawadih area committee of the Maoists, police sources said.
He was allegedly involved in the different cases and he was wanted in Naxal –related incident which was lodged in Nawadih and BokaroThermal police station in the year 2006.
Police sources said that Maoist Chandu Manjhi alias Ramchandra Soren has been arrested by the police of Pannk- Narayanpur police station of Navdih block of Bermo subdivision of Bokaro, the police was looking for Chandu Manjhi for the last several years.
Raid campaign was conducted on the instructions of Bokaro Superintendent of Police and he was arrested, Naxalite Chandu Manjhi is a named accused in many Naxalite incidents.
According to the information received, on December 6, 2006, 13 jawans and a police officer were killed in a land mine explosion at culvert near Nayabasti of Bokaro Thermal Police Station area, and Chandu Manjhi's name came first in this incident.
According to station in-charge Suman Kumar, Chandu Manjhi was on bail these days, but he was wanted in many other cases as well.
Apart from this, on May 19, 2015, a 10 kg landmine planted with the aim of harming policemen was recovered on the Budhgadda-Pannk main road. While the police was looking for him in connection with the planted of landmine near the culvert of Tola Delia in Sarubeda on June 17, 2015 and also planted at the culvert near Budagadda on October 10, 2015.
Sources said that Chandu Manjhi alias Ramchandra Soren is the husband of former mukhiya namely Basanti Devi and his an ancestral house in Jamunia village of Pannk Panchayat. Maoist Chandru Manjhi alias Ramchandra Soren's second wife Bansati Devi won the 2010 panchayat elections with a huge margin.