Jharkhand: NIA searches houses of CPI (Maoist) supporters and workers

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches on Thursday at the houses of overground workers and sympathisers of the banned terror organisation, CPI (Maoist), in Jharkhand, the probe agency said in a statement.

The case relates to the recovery of incriminating letters addressed to the top leaders of the CPI (Maoist) in July 2022 in the Anandpur area of Chaibasa district. The NIA had taken over the investigation from the local police and registered the case against nine accused in August 2023.

The searches were conducted at three locations in Chaibasa, Jharkhand. The houses of the suspects, located in Village-Pusalata, Police StationChakradharpur, District West Singhbhum, as well as Buru Rengra, Police Station- Jeteya and Lipunga village, Police Station-Gua, all of DistrictWest Singhbhum, Jharkhand, were extensively searched as part of the operation.

These suspects had been assisting the senior leadership of the proscribed outfit in carrying out Naxal activities, as per NIA investigations, which are continuing. (With inputs from ANI)