SAA event in Jharkhand, Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand area, India on Thu 8th December 2022

A Police team constituted by the Superintendent of Police (SP), Manoj Ratan Chauthe recovered a 303-loaded rifle, on the information of arrested Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Binod Munda aka Chandan, from Lajidam Forest area under Keredari Police Station limits in Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand on December 8, reports lagatar24.com. Contact and Control Room (CCR), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Arif Ekram, confirmed the recovery, and said Munda, a resident of Buchhadih village in Keredari lodged in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Central Jail was taken on remand. He was interrogated and he informed that a rifle was kept in the Lajidam Forest area of Keredari for the purpose of harming the police team during military action and camp in the forest. SP, Chauthe formed a team which raided the forest and recovered the loaded rifle. Munda told us that this rifle is of Raghunath Hembrom aka Chanchal Veersen, who is a member of the ‘special area committee, SAC’ of Maoist. DSP, Ekram said this rifle was wrapped in black-coloured plastic and kept under the soil. “We dug the soil near a tree to take out this rifle,” he added.