An ‘area commander’ of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Badal Lohra, has been arrested from Tupudana area in Ranchi District of Jharkhand on August 1, reportslagatar.in. More than a dozen cases of attempt to murder, robbery, ‘levy’ extortion is registered against Lohra, and he was mainly active in Basia in Simdega and Kamdara and Palkot in Gumla District.