Wanted Maoist with ₹10 lakh bounty arrested by Maharashtra ATS in Thane’s Thakurli

. Maharashtra ATS arrested Sanjay Sarju Yadav, a wanted Maoist operative carrying a ₹10 lakh bounty, from Thakurli in Thane’s Kalyan after a tip-off.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a 45-year-old wanted Maoist operative carrying a bounty of ₹10 lakh from Thakurli in Kalyan, Thane district.

The 45-year-old Maoist operative, wanted in murder, extortion and Arms Act cases in Jharkhand, had allegedly been hiding in Thakurli for 10 days.

Sanjay Sarju Yadav alias Godaram Yadav, a resident of Devgan village in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, was wanted in cases of extortion, murder and offences under the Arms Act, police officers said.

Yadav, allegedly a zonal committee member of a Maoist organisation, revealed during interrogation that he had been hiding in Thakurli for the past ten days, a senior ATS officer said.

He had started working with a milk supplier through a local contact, the officer said.

“The accused has been handed over to the Jharkhand Police, who have formally placed him under arrest,” the officer added.

Yadav will be taken to Jharkhand on transit remand granted by a Thane court.

Senior officers of the Maharashtra ATS had received intelligence, after which the units in Thane were asked to verify the input. Yadav was subsequently arrested by the police.

Police inspector Deep Bane and his team from the Thane unit arrested the accused. The police said Yadav also had a leg injury and suspected that he wanted to get it treated in Mumbai.