The rebel who gave up on books for guns

RANCHI: Ashisda, the Maoist carrying Rs 25lakh cash reward on his head who was killed in an encounter on Sunday, was an MBA student from Patna who had left home seven years ago. Ashish Yadav (30) had answered the rebel community's calling to avenge the killing of four family members by a group of criminals.
The sister of the slain Maoist has come to Gumla to claim Ashish Yadav's body.Ashish had severed all links with his family who were searching for him for the last seven years. On Tuesday, the family members spoke about Ashish to the police.
"His sister from Patna told me that he studied management and used to teach at at an institute before he disappeared," IG operations and police spokesperson M S Bhatia told TOI. A native of Bhagwanganj police station area under Masaurhi in rural Patna, Ashish was known as Ashish da alias Sanjay Kumar among the Maoists. "His rise in the CPI (Maoist) group was meteoric. In seven years, he rose to become a member of Bihar-Jharkhand special area committee (BJSAC)," Bhatia said. Ashish Yadav was killed in a surgical operation conducted by CRPF and police in Palkot area of Gumla on Sunday.