Bihar's Naresh Bhokta murder case: NIA chargesheets 9th naxal cadre

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday charged one more accused in the 2018 case relating to the abduction and brutal murder of one Naresh Singh Bhokta by naxal cadres on the suspicion of being a police informer.

This takes the number of accused chargesheeted in the case to nine.

The agency filed its 3rd Supplementary chargesheet against the accused Gora Yadav alias Anil Yadav alias Golden Ji alias Balveer of Aurangabad district of Bihar under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Gora Yadav was arrested by the NIA on August 4 last year for being directly involved in the brutal killing. He was found to be a dreaded naxal cadre, with 18 cases registered against him in various Police stations in the districts of Aurangabad and Gaya.

Bhakta was abducted by cadres of the banned CPI (Maoist) at the direction of their top leadership. He was taken to a so-called Jan Adalat in the Aurangabad area, where the kangaroo Court led by Naval Bhuiya, Sub-Zonal Commander, CPI (Maoist), ordered his killing. Naresh Singh Bhokta was murdered on the night of November 2, 2018, near Badhai Bigha village.

The NIA took up the investigations on June 24, 2022, and found that accused Gora Yadav alias Anil Yadav, along with Vinay Yadav alias Guruji, Naval Bhuiya alias Arjun Bhuiya, Jilebiya Yadav alias Vinay Kumar Yadav, Ramprasad Yadav, Abhijit Yadav, Subedar Yadav, Abhyash Bhuiya, and others had attended a crucial meeting in the forest of Anjanwa (Gaya). The meeting, convened by accused Pramod Mishra (the then CCM), had decided to eliminate the SPOs, including Naresh Singh Bhokta.

"Investigations had revealed that Gora Yadav was a member of CPI (Maoist) and 'body cover' (bodyguard) of Sandip Yadav, a SAC member of the outfit. He, along with his co-accused, had committed an act with the intent to strike terror among the people and a section of the society by killing common people," said the NIA in a statement.

During the course of the investigations, the NIA said, it unearthed the involvement of top CPI (Maoist) commanders, including a pilot bureau member Pramod Mishra, in the conspiracy behind this brutal killing, committed to terrorising the common people while propagating the false ideology of 'People's War' against the State.

In the instant case, the NIA, in its original chargesheet on February 25, 2023, had chargesheeted one accused. This was followed by the filing of charges against three more persons in June, while another four accused were named in the second supplementary chargesheet filed in September last year.