A woman ultra of the CPI(Maoist) was arrested here on Saturday. The ultra, identified as Shanti Devi, wife of hardcore Naxal Chhotka Marandi of Simarjori village of Pirtard block. The security forces have also recovered an envelop in her possession.
Police sources said the arrested ultra had played a major role in carrying out Naxal operations and passed the internal information from one ultras to another, and helped Naxals in conducting attacks on police in Giridih recently. The police acted on a tip-off that the lady had come to Giridih court premises to meet her husband Chhotka Marandi, who had been lodged in Giridih jail.
Muffasil police in-charge, Ajay Sahu assisted by lady constables, arrested Shanti Devi. She was an active member of the woman’s squad of the Maoist, said Ajay Sahu. Police sources said Devi, who was wanted by the police in several cases and had shifted her centre of activity from one place to another for last few years, is reported to have confessed before the police that she came to Giridih court to meet her husband.