Man with Maoist links nabbed from Sirsa

Tribune News Service

Hisar, February 22

The Sirsa police have nabbed a man identified as Dashrath Yadav and having links with Maoists from Jagmalwali village of Sirsa district on Saturday. He was involved in a bomb blast in Gaya district in Bihar.

DSP Nar Singh said that the accused, who was declared proclaimed officer (PO) in Bihar after he jumped bail following 10 months in jail in the bomb blast case in 1997-98, has been working as salesman in liquor vends in Sirsa district to hide from the police.

The DSP said that the CIA staff — during check-up near Jagmalwali — detained the accused on suspicion. During interrogation, he revealed that he was a PO in a bomb blast case in Bihar.

The police probe revealed that he was facing four criminal cases of murder and bomb blast in Bihar.

“We have informed the Bihar police who are coming to Sirsa to take production custody of the accused. There are no criminal cases against him in Sirsa district,” the DSP said.

“Dashrath was brought to Sirsa by one of his relatives in 1990. Later, he developed links with Maoists in Bihar. He was among the seven persons who were arrested in the attack on a police team in Sukhi Nadi in Bihar’s Gaya district in 1997 in which one police personnel was killed and another injured. He got bail from the court after 10 months in jail in the bomb blast case,” the DSP said, adding that he was in touch with Neeru Yadav, the Maoist chief of his area in Bihar.