Jharkhand DGP gets threat SMS from Maoists

A few persons have been detained who have facilitated in providing the SIM card to the sender of the SMS in Sareikela Kharsawan district.

“It is very difficult to say,” the DGP said when asked whether he suspected a Maoist handiwork, adding “only after a thorough interrogation can we able to say.”

The police were interrogating “the few persons”, whom they detained during the day in Sareikela Kharsawan district in connection with the incident, the top cop said.

The Maoists had eliminated Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjit Balihar on July 2 last year in Dumka after which the police had stepped up anti-naxal operation across the state.