Ajay Oraon (27), leader of the outlawed Maoist outfit, was booked from Kozhikode on April 18. He is from the Kulangoor Zone in Daba Village of Jharkhand. Ajay is the area commander of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI). He is the accused in a case registered by Jharkhand Police in 2019. Jharkhand Police located him by tracking his mobile phone tower location. Thus they discovered that his hideout was in Pantheerankavu, Kozhikode.
Then Jharkhand Police reached Kozhikode and took him into custody, with the help of Kerala Police, from his ‘shelter’ in a migrant labour camp. He was taken to the Pantheerankavu Police Station, where Jharkhand Police interrogated him in the presence of the Kozhikode City Police Commissioner and North Zone IG of Kerala Police. There are reports that Jharkhand Police could collect vital information from him regarding his ‘business’ in Kerala and how he reached Kerala. Ajay was handed over to Jharkhand Police after the completion of the formalities.
Ajay reached Pantheerankavu three months before and lived under a fake name in the area. Police reportedly said that he had been to Kerala in the past. Ajay is accused of setting fire to rural road construction equipment and distributing the literature on the outlawed PLFI. Central and state agencies have started enquiries regarding Ajay’s links with the Maoists in Kerala.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other nationalist forces have been complaining for the last several years; the Government in Kerala is soft towards anti-national forces; hence the state has become a haven for them. A senior leader of the Maoist outfit in Jharkhand came to the state and lived here ‘peacefully’ until the Jharkhand Police spotted him. This is a significant development given the allegation that religious fundamentalists are sometimes hand in glove with ‘red terrorists’. Their common agenda is “Hate Bharat”.
