PLFI member arrested in Jharkhand

A member of the banned People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) has been arrested in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said on Tuesday.

Mukesh Kumar Yadav alias Toofan, a self-styled commander of the PLFI, was apprehended on Monday during a raid at Karimandih village in Haidar Nagar police station area of the district, Palamu Superintendent of Police Ajay Linda said.

A rifle and a mobile phone were seized from his possession, the SP said.

The PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI(Maoist).

Yadav, a resident of Lesli police station area of the district, is wanted in six naxalite-related cases, Linda said, adding that the police had been looking for him for the past four years.