Hailing the arrest as a major achievement and a ‘historic’ moment for the state police, DGP Tadasha Mishra said that with Besra’s arrest, the Maoist menace has been ‘almost wiped out’ from the state.

Misir Besra, the last last remaining Central Committee (CC) and Politburo member of the CPI (Maoist), was arrested in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district on Tuesday. | India News

Misir Besra, CPI (Maoist) Politburo member with a ₹1 crore bounty, was apprehended in Jharkhand's Tundi-Mandiya forest during a security operation near the Dhanbad-Giridih border.