By way of PTI
CHAIBASA: 9 Maoists, who have been allegedly concerned within the assault on former BJP MLA Gurucharan Nayak remaining month, had been arrested with palms and ammunition from West Singhbhum district, a senior police officer mentioned on Saturday.
A few of their sympathisers, too, had been taken into custody, he mentioned.
Nayak had narrowly escaped a Maoist assault on January 4 however the naxals slit the throats of 2 policemen guarding him in Jheelruwa village right here, and escaped with their AK-47 rifles.
The arrested Maoists also are recognized to have taken section in different extremist actions, district Superintendent of Police Ajay Linda mentioned.
All of the arrests have been made on Friday and Saturday from villages adjacent Jheelruwa in Goilkera police station, the SP said.
In keeping with Linda, Kujri Kerai, a former mukhiya (village headman), used to be some of the symphatisers.
He used to be given the accountability of inviting Nayak to a soccer fit in Jheelruwa on January 4, whilst two different locals, Pradhan Koda and Pusa Lugun, have been informed to stay a tab on police motion.
Linda mentioned one of the vital arrested naxals have been additionally answerable for killing a ‘munshi’ (clerk) of the woodland division and a villager, but even so surroundings a JCB system on fireplace.
3 carbines, 42 rounds of are living ammunition, naxal literature, one motorbike and cell phones, amongst different pieces, had been seized from the ownership of the arrested Maoists.