THE UTTAR Pradesh police arrested a hardcore Naxalite from Duwari village in Sonebhadra district late on Friday evening.
The police consider it as an achievement as the Naxalite identified as Ram Naresh alias Naresh was wanted in half a dozen cases of loot and murder in the district.
Sources informed that during a routine combing operation in Patherkuwa forests late last night, the police got a tip-off about the presence of a harecore Naxalite in Duwari village close to Patherkuwa forests.
The cops rushed to the spot and arrested the Naxalite along with a country-made rifle and some rounds of ammunition.
Sources said Naresh was a hardcore activist of the banned Peoples War Group (PWG) but after merger of PWG and MCC, he had aligned with the Sanjay Kol group.
Ram Naresh carried a reward of Rs 2,500 on himself. Senior police officers, including Superintendent of Police, Sonebhadra, Raghubir Lal were interrogating him, the sources informed.
Three buried alive
Three labourers were buried alive when the wall of a house under construction collapsed in Jamania in Ghazipur district on Saturday. The local people extricated the injured from the debris and rushed them to the hospital, where the Doctors pronounced them dead.