RANCHI, Nov. 8 -- In a well-coordinated operation with the Jharkhand police, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) nabbed a wanted Maoist zonal commander Sanjay Yadav alias Godaram-ji, carrying a bounty of Rs.13 lakh, in the Thakurli area of Thane district, Maharashtra, and handed him over to a police team from the Palamu, officials said on Saturday. Police said the team is expected to reach Jharkhand with the arrested Maoist by Saturday night. "Zonal commander of banned LWE outfit CPI (Maoist) Sanjay Yadav alias Godaram Yadav has been arrested and is being presently interrogated for the recovery of dumps of Naxalite arms and ammunitions etc. He was wanted in a total of 53 cases of subversive acts - 23 pending cases in Palamu district in Jharkhand, 20 in Aurangabad and 10 in Gaya districts of Bihar. The Jharkhand government had declared a reward of Rs.10 lakh while the Bihar government had declared a reward of Rs.3 lakh on him," Narendra Kumar Singh, Jharkhand inspector general (IG, Operation), told HT on Saturday. The IG further said that only two more hardcore Maoists - Nitesh Yadav and Manohar Ganjhu - were now still at large but would be arrested soon. A senior police officer said that the police team from Jharkhand was in perfect coordination with the Maharashtra ATS and tipped it off about Sanjay Yadav's location in Thane district. "Sanjay Yadav alias Godaram Yadav was hiding in Thakurli area under the Thane district of Maharashtra for the last 10 days. He was hiding on a fake identity but his location was traced and was under our round-the-clock surveillance through manual and technological intelligence and methods. He has been officially arrested and being brought back. Search is also ongoing to arrest his close associate Nitesh Yadav who is also believed to be hiding in Maharashtra," an IPS involved in the operation said. According to the police records, Sanjay Yadav alias Godaram shot to infamy after he blasted away the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election office on second floor of the Heera Complex in the market under the Harihargunj police station (PS) on April 25-26 night, 2019. The squad led by him had left pamphlets in the area calling for election boycott after the incident. He was also allegedly leading the Maoist squad that opened indiscriminate firing in the Pipra Bazar in which two persons were killed on November 23, 2019. The slain Mohan Kumar Gupta and Suraj Kumar Soni were linked to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) with Gupta being the block president of JMM. Two more persons Rajkumar Soni and Guddu Kumar Soni were injured. According to the police records, Sanjay Yadav had unleashed a reign of terror in Palamu, Aurangabad and Gaya districts with many cases of murders, levy collection, IED blasts, arsoning, attacks on the security forces and other acts of violence....