Patna: The NIA has simultaneously raided several places of Maoist top leader Vijay Arya. In Patna, they carried out a raid on the residence of Arya's son at AG Colony located in Shastrinagar of Patna. Raids are going on under the supervision of Inspector Mukesh Kumar Sinha. Raids are also being conducted at the house of Shobha Kumari, daughter of Vijay Arya located at Mahesh Parasi of Goh in Aurangabad. Apart from this, raids are also being conducted in Karva village under the Koch Police Station of Gaya district. The NIA has been conducting the raids at three places simultaneously on Friday from 6 am.
Arya hails from Karma village under the Konch area in the Gaya district. He is a postgraduate in economics from Magadh University. Initially, he was a political worker. Thereafter attracted to Left-wing extremism. Arya had also worked as a temporary lecturer before he joined in active politics. He joined in Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) and led armed conflicts with Ranvir Sena.
After the death of MCCI supremo Sagar Chatterjee in an encounter, the police raided the village and destroyed Arya's shanty. Thereafter Arya went underground. After the formation of CPI (Maoist) in 2004, he joined the party and became active in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and undivided Andhra Pradesh to spread Maoist ideologies.
Arya was known as Jaspalji alias Amar and was chairman of the Party's all-India subcommittee of the mass organisation (Sucomo). He was arrested on May 1, 2011, along with two other Central Committee Members of CPI (Maoist) Jhantu Mukherjee and Varanasi Subramanyam from a village under Barsoi block in Katihar district by the Special Task Force and Bihar Police team. A total of 12 criminal cases are pending against him in Bihar and he carried Rs 3 lakh award on his head.
