The Special Task Force (STF) of State Police arrested five suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and their associates in separate raids in Danapur area in Patna District and Karauna in Jehanabad District of Bihar on March 31, reports The Times of India. The Security Force (SF) personnel during raids recovered hand grenades, rocket launcher maps and huge cache of spare parts for making these items besides detonators, safety pins, fuses, codex wires, which were meant for supply to the Maoists in Bihar and Jharkhand. A senior STF officer said, Parshuram Singh and his associate Sanjay Singh were arrested from their native Bistaul village under Karauna Police outpost in Jehanabad District, while Parshuram’s two sons Rakesh Singh, Gautam Singh were later arrested from their residence with lathe mechanic Mohammad Badaruddin at Gajadhar Chak under Danapur Police Station area. He also said two hand grenades, three maps of making rocket launchers, four detonators, one pressure switch, two safety fuses, numerous safety pins and grenade levers were recovered from the Danapur residence of Rakesh and Gautam. He said, “Seized items include more than 600 detonators, one regular rifle, seven magazines, six rifle bolts, 25 live cartridges, two wireless sets, three police uniform, electric wire bundle, 279 detonator caps, two strike pins, 685 safety catches, rubber washers for grenades, five partially manufactured grenades, three grenade launching base, Maoist literature and other items.” The senior STF officer said, “They were involved in procuring raw materials, manufacturing spares on lathe machine and supplying them to Maoists,” adding, besides manufacturing these items, Gautam was working with an electronics showroom in Patna. He said Parshuram used to supply all these parts and manufactured materials to Maoist ‘commander’ Arvind Singh before he died two years back. “Arvind was also from Karauna and was a member of the Jharkhand’s special area committee of CPI (Maoist) politburo. He was working for another Latehar based Maoist leader Radhe Yadav,” the officer said. “Rakesh and Gautam used to ask Badaruddin to make parts of different designs on lathe machine for manufacturing grenades, IEDs, rocket launchers and weapons. These were supplied to Maoists through Parshuram,” he said. The officer also said at least two tractor trolleys were dug out from the courtyard of Parshuram till March 31 night.