Ranchi Sep 29 PTI Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday paid homage to the deputy commandant rank official of Jharkhand Jaguar an anti-Naxalite force of the state police who was killed in an encounter with extremistsSoren visited the Jaguar Headquarters at Sukarhuttu in Ranchi where the body of the official was keptThe 41-year-old deputy commandant was killed at Salayya forest in Latehar district in an encounter between security forces and extremists of banned Naxalite outfit Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad JJMP on TuesdayAfter paying floral tributes to the body of Kumar the chief minister interacted with his wife and son and consoled themChief Secretary Sukhdev Singh DGP Neeraj Sinha and other senior officers accompanied Soren to the Jaguar headquartersWhen the Jaguar team went near the spot inside the forest where the JJMP members were the ultras started firing injuring Deputy Commandant KumarThe police personnel also returned the fire killing one of the NaxalitesKumar was brought in a helicopter to a Ranchi hospital but he did not survive PTI NAM NN NN
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