State police discounted and dispelled any fear of rise of extremism in the State. Sources said common people have begun to tell that extremism will rear its head again in Jharkhand and fear extortion calls coming over to their cell phones. State BJP has charged three week old Govt with rise in extremism in the State.

State police spokesperson Saket Kumar Singh cum DIG STF said, “There were definitely incidents of arson by naxals in the months of November and December but police curbed and contained them and this last 15 days there has been all quiet on this front.”

He said, “Police have information that naxals have gone into a kind of hibernation for a month or so now but for us there is never any room for relaxing nor for any complacency either.”

Reminded that for incidents of extremism there is no place & time fixed but can happen most abruptly to which he said, “Nothing can be predicted in such a matter but what I want to drive my point home is that naxals went for arson for a couple of reasons.”

Explaining the reasons he said, “Forests remain too dense up to December.Then starts leaf fall. Once leaf falls the jungles start getting bare visible and naxals again turn to jungles to set up their hide outs.”

Singh said, “Winter nights keep naxals notorious as long nights give them a feeling that they can go about their sinister design.”

Asked as to which crime apart from extremism Jharkhand police find tough and challenging to which Singh said “It is the cyber crime. It is erupting all over the country. It will be the biggest threat that is coming to Jharkhand police and police of other states as well.”

What Saket K Singh said appears to be true as Jharkhand’s Jamtara which is the hub of cyber crime has even forced a Bollywood director Soumendra Padhi to make a Hindi movie on Jamtara which deals with the story of phishing scam!

On urban naxals Singh said, “Naxalism has no dictionary either of urban or rural. If one is naxal one is no matter where he resides or from where he operates.”

Again asked that people who hold left wing ideologies or stand by it are easily dubbed as urban naxals to which he said ,“I do not subscribe to such opinion. Urban naxal is the most misunderstood thing.”

 He added “ To me if one uses arms, ammunition, spends time in forests and again comes to town, lives here for some period and then again sneaks in to his hide outs in forest then that man is straight way a naxal and there is no need to compartmentalize his identity by rusticity or urbaneness either.”