A reward of 15 lakhs was announced by the Jharkhand Government, while the NIA has declared an additional reward of 5 lakh rupees was announced on the name of Maoist Ravinder Ganjhu
The encounter led to death of one civilian and security forces had found handwritten diaries of Akkiraju Haragopal alias RK, CCM of CPI (Maoist), alongwith arms, ammunition and Maoist literature
The Assam Police has arrested Maoist leader Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee alias Kanchan Da, a member of Central Committee of CPI Maoist along with his associate Akash Orang a member of Assam State Organizing Committee of CPI (Maoist)
The officials said that the Maoists are believed to be part of the Cherla Area Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The security forces had received information was that they were preparing IEDs to attack police.
The plan was executed under the leadership of Maharaj Pramanik, Zonal Commander of Bundu Chandil Sub Zone, who had also enlisted the help of over ground workers and sympathisers of CPI(Maoist) :NIA