Acting on a tip-off, the Seraikela-Kharsawan police nabbed a Naxal belonging to the outlawed outfit CPI-Maoist in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Identified as Nazir Munda (28), the arrested Naxal fell into police net at about 1.30 am on Tuesday night while he was carrying posters in a bike, with the intention of putting them up in Adityapur and Gamharia localities by taking advantage of the unearthly hours.

Revealing about the breakthrough, Seraikela-Kharsawan superintendent of police, Mohammed Arshi said that they had got an intelligence input that some rebels will pass through the Kuchai-Kharsawan main road in a bike sometime around 1 am on Wednesday.

"On getting the information, we set up a team and assigned the sub-divisional police officer, Seraikela, Rakesh Ranjan to carry out an operation. Rakesh Ranjan set up a checking point at Chandni Chowk on Kharsawan-Kuchai road and started checking each and every vehicle that passed the area. At about 1.30 am, a bike appeared from the Kuchai end of the road and on checking the vehicle, the team found a bag containing hand-written posters. Then the police team soon took the man into custody and later interrogated him at Kharsawan thana," said Arshi while addressing newsmen at the police station in Seraikela on Wednesday.

The SP said the accused Nazir Munda divulged that he had joined the Naxal outfit one-and-half-years-ago and was working along with dreaded rebel leaders like Maharaj Pramanik and Analda who are active in Seraikela-Kharsawan and also in adjoining West Singhbhum district.

"The content in the posters that Nazir was carrying were written against the farm law and those posters were supposed to be fixed along the Tata-Kandra Road in Adityapur and Gamharia," said senior police officers.

The SP pointed out Nazir Munda had confessed that he had also fixed Naxal posters along the Tata-Kandra Road in Adityapur and Gamharia in November last year.

They sent the arrested rebel to Seraikela divisional jail after producing him before a judicial magistrate in the evening, The police have also seized over a dozen posters and his bike.