Khunti (Jharkhand): Two ultras belonging to the proscribed extremist outfit People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were arrested by police near Rania in Jharkhand's Khunti district, and a large cache of arms, ammunitions and explosives recovered from them, officials said Thursday.
The arrest was made a day before when they were planning to shift the arms, ammunitions and explosives, besides unfinished firearms and arms making materials, from a forested area. Interestingly, President Droupadi Murmu was attending a function in the district of Khunti earlier on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar formed a raid team headed by Additional Superintendent of Police Ramesh Kumar after getting intelligence that two PLFI ultras identified as Lalit Kherwar (45) and Shivnarayan Singh alias Master (48) were about to shift the arms and ammunitions and explosives which were hidden in the forest.
The PLFI group led by self-styled Supremo Dinesh Gope, who was recently arrested from Delhi, had secreted the cache earlier, a police statement said. Gope alias "Kuldeep Yadav" alias "Badku", who had more than 100 criminal cases against him, was carrying a reward of Rs 30 lakh.
The raid team arrested the two PLFI activists- Kotagair resident Kherwar and Singh of Goharom village under Rania police station on Wednesday.
Based on the lead provided by them, Police recovered 35 pieces Gelatine sticks, 35 pieces of Detonators attached with wire, 4 country-made pistol (rusted), 4420 numbers of live cartridges of 5.56 mm bore, 300 pieces of live ammunitions of 7.62x39mm bore (AK47) and 6 pieces of unfinished pistol magzine. (PTI)
