Arms and ammunitions recovered from Maoists

Police recovered materials, arms and ammunition belonging to Maoists in Simdega district of Jharkhand on Monday. Meanwhile, in another incident in Gaya district of neighboring Bihar state, police arrested a man who pretended to be a Maoist to extort money from locals. Evidently, the maoist movement started as a peasant revolt in Naxalbari village in West Bengal in 1967, giving the name Naxalism to their movement and Naxalites to the cadres.