Maoist held in Jharkhand

A platoon commander -cum-landmine expert of CPI (Maoist) outfit has been held from Kolaburu hill of Saranda forest of Naxal-hit West Singhbhum district, a senior police officer today said.
Following a tip off, a combined team of CRPF and District Armed Police launched a massive search operation in the forest and apprehended Kishore Kisku alias Diwakar, a resident of Pirtand police station area of Giridih district, last night, Superintendent of Police N K Singh said.
Singh said 14 detonators, a country-made pistol, two live cartridges, one mobile phone, 8 memory cards, a radio, Naxal literature and cash over Rs 19,000, were recovered from him.

Kisku was wanted in 14 Naxal-related incidents in West Singhbhum district. These included the landmine blast on Kiriburu-Karampada road in February 2006, which claimed lives of 12 CRPF jawans and an encounter in 2010 in which two policemen were killed.
In the first Naxal attack he was involved in, Kisku had blown up a residential school building in Thalkobad in June, 2006, Singh said adding that he joined the CPI (Maoist) under the influence of a Naxal leader Ajay Mahato alias Dadu in Giridih in 2004 and was shifted to Saranda later.
Under the guidance of Anmol da and Sandeep da, Maoist leaders, Kisku was trained to make and plant landmines, the top police officer said, adding that later Kisku was made "section commander" and provided fire-arms.

Referring to the memory cards recovered from him, Singh said that they contain vital clues about Naxal activities and would help in police investigations.