Maoist involved in attack on former Jharkhand speaker arrested

GARHWA: A Maoist who was involved in the attack on the convoy of former Jharkhand speaker Inder Singh Namdhari and on a police patrol was today arrested along with three others in Garhwa district.

The Maoist, Surendra Singh Kherwar, was arrested from his house at Rajbash village in Chinia block along with three others, Upendra Singh Kharwar, Arvind and Navrang Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police Jagdish Prasad said.

Three weapons were seized from their possession, Prasad said.

He said that Kherwar was one of the accused in the attack on Namdhari's convoy in Latehar district last year and on a police patrol party in Garhwa district in January this year when several police personnel were killed.