Two hardcore Maoists arrested in Muzaffarpur village

MUZAFFARPUR: A team of special task force (STF) from Patna arrested two hardcore Maoists, including its self-proclaimed commander and a woman member from Abhuchak village under Saraiya police station of the district late on Monday night.
They have been kept at an undisclosed place and were being interrogated by STF and other security agencies. The arrested Maoists have been identified as Anil Baitha, resident of Gopalpur village in Vaishali district and Ragini of Fatehpur village under Kanti police station in Muzaffarpur district.
ASP (operation) Vimleshchandra Jha said, “The duo were wanted in more in more than six cases. Baitha’s name has figured recently in a case pertaining to demand of levy from two construction companies engaged in laying new railway tracks on newly-created section between Hajipur and Sugauli under East Central Railways. Two separate FIR have been lodged with Saraiya police station in January and March this year against Baitha and his associates.”
He added: “Ragini was wanted in more than six cases, including exploding rail track near Kurhani railway station on Hajipur-Muzaffarpur section in 2013. She had been evading arrest from the past couple of years as she was residing in Punjab with a changed name and had come to Muzaffarpur recently to strengthen the organization.”
The SP said that Ragini was once a close confidante of self-proclaimed zonal commander Ramesh Paswan, who was gunned down by security forces in an encounter in May during the recently concluded parliamentary election.