JJMP cadres nabbed with arms and ammunition

DALTONGANJ: Palamu police nabbed a veteran criminal and member of Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a Maoist faction, Ravindra Paswan aka DGM Ji and his accomplice Babulal along with a loaded pistol and a stolen bike from Haidernagar police station in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

Based on the leads provided by them, a special police team unearthed arms, ammunition, and police combat uniform from their hideout from the forest on Wednesday.

Briefing media about this development, the Palamu range deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Vipul Shukla said, “Ravindra and Babulal had affiliation with the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a Maoists faction. The duo was wanted in many cases of murder, loot, and incidents of Maoists’ violence in Palamu district.”

The police said that more than five cases were registered against Ravindra in Haidernagar and Hussainabad police stations while two were lodge against Babulal in Haidernagar police station. “The duo had hidden arms, ammunition and other items in Karai forest which the special team led by additional superintendent of police (ASP) Arun Kumar Singh recovered,” the DIG pointed out. The special team also included Hussainabad SDPO Vijay Kumar, CRPF assistant commandant Rupesh Kumar and inspectors and sub inspectors from local police stations. The police recovered four country made rifles, six sets of police combat uniform, JJMP parcha, live ammunition, one country made pistol and one stolen bike.