Maharashtra ATS arrests Jharkhand Maoist leader carrying reward of Rs 15 lakh

A Jharkhand Maoist leader carrying a reward of ₹15 lakh on his head was apprehended by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad from Palghar district early Sunday morning.

According to an ATS official, the Jharkhand Police’s website mentioned his name - Deepak Yadav alias Karu Hulas Yadav - in the list of ‘most wanted Naxals. The ATS official said that forty-five-year-old Yadav a regional committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist) in Jharkhand, had come to Maharashtra for some medical treatment.

The official stated that in an early morning operation on Sunday, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad nabbed him after a raid at a chawl (tenement) in the Nalasopara area of Palghar, located around 50 km from Mumbai. The



official said that the ATS is interrogating him. 

According to the information received so far, Yadav, a resident of Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, had a wound on his left leg and was in Nalasopara for medical treatment for the last two months. He was active in the CPI (Maoist) since 2004.

The official said that the Thane unit of Maharashtra ATS had received specific information about Yadav, following which they conducted the raid. The Maharashtra ATS has informed the Jharkhand Police about the operation. The official said, a team of Jharkhand Police will reach Mumbai in the evening. After being produced in a local court, Yadav will be handed over to them, he added.