PLFI area commander with Rs 15 lakh bounty on head killed in police encounter in Gumla
He was identified as Martin Karketta and carried Rs 15 lakh on head. The gunfire, which dealt a severe blow to the outlawed organisation, took place around 9 pm, police added.
The deceased commander, who was leading the banned ultra outfit after the arrest of its supremo, Dinesh Gope, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Nepal in 2023, was identified hailed from Redwa village under the same police station.
He was associated with Gope since the outfit came into being in 2003 as the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT). However, it was renamed as PLFI, a splinter group of CPI (Maoist), in 2007 with Gope as its self-styled chief.
Gumla SP Haris Bin Zaman said, "We had very specific information about the presence of Kerketta with his squad. Following this, we constituted multiple teams of district police, cordoned off the area, and police teams headed from different sides to encircle the extremists.
Seeing the police, they opened fire on the police, which was retaliated, killing Kerketta in the encounter. We recovered a pistol from him. The operation was being led by Basia SDPO Nazir Akhtar, while the main team of police was in command of OC Kamdara Shashi Prakash.
One more team was being led by OC Basia Yudhishthir Kumar Prajapati."
The SP added that Kerketta was leading the outfit after the arrest of Dinesh. "As the encounter progressed, four others who were in his squad retreated. The operation is continuing in the area," he added.
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