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The local informers wanted us to go in two groups, so as to cover at least two directions in which they could have fled. But it was already about 2 pm, so I decided to keep the group intact and to walk to Bagaha. They told me that Bagaha was quite far, but I was quite enthusiastic on that day. No one knew how distant Bagaha was from there, but they made different types of guesses. Our tiring foot journey had begun. We left some local officers there for planning ambush parties in the night time. When we reached the other side of the diara, we had walked for almost 35 kilometers in very difficult terrain. We had to cross minor streams at least 20 times. The time was 8.00 pm when we reached Bagaha side of the river. We sat in the vehicles to reach Bagaha, and almost everyone had bruises, and had been very tired. I told the STF commander to be prepared for another raid, the next morning which I later cancelled on phone in the night. They were very happy to know about the cancellation, which they told me later.
Even though the massive raid was not successful in its motive, it had a great impact on the psyche of the dacoit gangs. We later realized this when one of the kidnapped persons returned back home and informed us that he had seen us in that operation from a distance of just about 20 meters. All the dacoits were hiding in a sugarcane field while we were moving towards Bagaha. He had then been warned not to make noise and so had kept silent. The gangs saw the scale and determination of the police and were not to be seen in the diara for moths to come. It also sent a strong message to the residents of the diara who seldom had seen an SP walking on foot in the diara and chasing criminals.
To be continued....