‘Maoist leader’ from Bihar nabbed in Noida with fake Aadhaar card
NOIDA: Noida Police officials late on Monday night arrested a 24-year-old suspected Maoist leader who had allegedly been on the run for more than 11 years. A pistol, live cartridges and a fake Aadhaar card were recovered from his possession, the police said.
Police officials said Sudheer Kumar was an area commander of a Maoist outfit in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and had been living in Noida for the past year. Hailing from a village in Muzaffarpur, the 24-year-old was carrying a reward of ₹50,000 for his arrest and was wanted for at least five murders, the police said.
Police officials said they had accused was employed as a laboubeen tipped off about his presence rer. The SSP added that Kumar in Noida. “We had been informed committed his first crime around about his presence in the area,” 11 years ago when he had shot a said senior superintendent of man in his village in Bihar. police Ajay Pal Sharma. During interrogation, Kumar
Kumar was arrested from a allegedly told police he had house in the Harola area of enrolled in an undergraduate Noida’s Sector 5 during a midengineering course in a college in night raid by the Sector 20 police. Ghaziabad in 2012, but had “He was living there with his dropped out in 2013 to go back to wife, sister and brother-in-law,” Muzaffarpur. Upon his return to said Sharma, adding that the Bihar, he is believed to have joined a local criminal gang, the police said.
“He committed some murders for the gang, after which he was made an area commander for the Maoists... He was then involved in two blasts in factories in Muzaffarpur and also a train blast in 2014. He is wanted for at least five murders,” Sharma said.
Police officials alleged that Kumar eventually assembled a group of 35-40 people and had trained them on how to use AK-47 and how to make and detonate bombs.
The Bihar government had announced a reward of ₹50,000 for Kumar’s arrest. “He was in contact with Maoist leaders in Varanasi and Madhya Pradesh and, with their help, was in the process of expanding his group,” he said.
Police official said that as of now, they have not been able to ascertain why he came to Noida. “He comes here often and then returns to his village. We do not know the exact nature of his business in the city... We will have more information once he is interrogated further,” said Sharma.
The Sspaddedthatkumar had allegedly identified 11 other members of his gang. “We have information about 11 more members... We are also investigating who had provided him with the fake Aadhaar card,” said Sharma.
Police officials added that this was his first arrest. “He confessed to multiple crimes during interrogation. Till now, we have information about his involvement in at least 15 cases. We are carrying out an investigation,” he said.