New Delhi, July 30
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a senior member of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation in a 2021 Bihar case related to seizure of arms, ammunitions and explosives etc.
Uday ji alias Rajesh Kumar Sinha, a Special Area Committee member of CPI (Maoist), has been arrested under various provisions of the Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act, Criminal Law Amendment Act, and UA (P) Act registered in June 2021.
The NIA stated that apart from arms, ammunition and improvised hand grenades, several incriminating articles and equipment used in manufacturing of arms and explosives, along with documents /materials, were seized at the time of the original registration of the case.
These were recovered from Maoist operative ParshuramSingh who had visited a CPI (Maoist) camp located in Budhapahad, Jharkhand, and met Mithilesh Mehta and supplied improvised hand grenade Uday ji was found instrumental in providing financial and logistics support to Parshuram Singh, who was manufacturing the improvised hand grenades at his garage in Danapur. These improvised hand grenades were further supplied to Naxals at Budhapahad. Investigations have revealed a huge conspiracy to supply arms, ammunitions and explosive materials to the proscribed terrorist organisation, CPI (Maoist).
In December 2021, NIA had filed a chargesheet against five accused persons, namely Parshuram Singh, Sanjay Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Prem Raj and Md. Badruddin.
During further investigation, the role of one Mithilesh Mehta, a Central Committee member of CPI (Maoist), had also come to light. He was remanded to custody in June 2022 and was chargesheeted in November of the same year.
