In a significant breakthrough, Jharkhand police arrested four Maoists, including a sub-zonal commander carrying a bounty of ₹5 lakh, in the state’s Gumla district. The arrests were made on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, following a tip-off that led to a raid in the Aurapat forest area within the Dumri Police Station limits. The arrested Maoists were identified as Ramdeo Lohra, a sub-zonal commander of the JJMP, a splinter group of the banned CPI (Maoist), Arvind Nayak, an area commander, Muneshwar Singh, and Jitendra Lohra.
Lohra and Nayak hail from Lohardaga district, while Singh is also a resident of Lohardaga, and Jitendra Lohra is from Gumla. According to Jharkhand Police IG Operations Narendra Singh, the police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the possession of the arrested Maoists. Gumla SP Haris Bin Zaman confirmed the arrests and the recovery of arms and ammunition.
