Palamau Maoists held in Varanasi
Source: Telegraph india | ||
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Ranchi/Lucknow, Jan. 27: Five Maoists from Jharkhand, carrying mobile phones with recordings of lectures by their leaders, were arrested from Varanasi along with a car without a number plate. Additional director-general of police Brij Lal said today that all five, in their thirties, were wanted in their home state for at least six cases of murder and arson. Apart from the SUV, five mobile phones, a diary with numbers of their comrades and Rs 17,000 in cash were seized from them. The Maoists were arrested on January 25 from the Lanka area of Varanasi. “All five were involved in attacks on police, murder, arson and were operating in Palamau and Latehar,” Lal said. They were identified as Jairam Singh of Panchmoh, Kamlesh Majhi of Marigaon (both in Palamau), Mahendra Prajapati of Nawadih and Ajit Singh of Akbatore (Latehar) and Rakesh Gupta of Nai Mohalla in Daltonganj. Inspector-general (operations) R.K. Mallick said: “Jairam Singh was a member of the eastern regional bureau, a company recently floated by the Maoists. He was there to receive treatment. Others were helping him out,” he said. Lal said that interrogations were on. “We have informed the Jharkhand government that these men would be sent back to their state through a transit remand,” he added. |
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