Banshidbar Nagar police have arrested one Area Commander, of Tritiya Prastooti Committee (TPC), Manoj Singh Kharwar, at Tulsidamar under Bhawnathpur police station, on Tuesday. Police also recovered a country made carbine and two live cartridges from him.
Sub-divisional police officer Neeraj Kumar said that based on a tip off police held a vehicles checking drive where, after seeing the police one person ran away and hid in a bush. The police surrounded him and nabbed.
Manoj is involved in several naxal violence incidents. He was involved in a police encounter on May 18 last year in Chhatarpur in Palamu district, burning Biri leaves in Husaru village of Arasli etc, the SDPO informed. He was staying in a village in Sonbdadra district of Uttar Pradesh, the SDPO added.
