Three hardcore Maoists have been arrested with weapons from a village in Rajepur police station area in Bihar's East Champaran district, police said today.
"Acting on a tip off, a team of Special Armed Police (SAP) raided in Pakhri village last evening and arrested Suresh Sahni alias Sujit, Dhanesh Sah and Rajmangal Ram after they tried to escape by firing on the police," Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Harimohan Shukla said.
A pistol, six ammunitions and two mobile phones were seized from the arrested Maoists, he said.
Sahni, said to be the sub-zonal commander of a Maoist outfit and his associates, were wanted in a dozen cases, in Sheohar, Muzaffarpur and East Champaran districts, including massacre of five people and abduction of a BDO in Sheohar district, Shukla said.
