Ranchi, Dec. 9 -- The Jharkhand HC directed state police chief Tadasha Mishra to file a status report of the police investigation initiated 11 years ago after a case of fake surrender plan surfaced in the state and an FIR was registered at Lower Bazar police station here on March 28, 2014.

A high court advocate close to the matter said the state police chief was given two days to file a status report. The direction was given while hearing of a PIL filed by Jharkhand Council For Democratic Right in 2015 alleging that 514 tribal youths were prepared to surrender before police through a coaching institute, Digdarshan. The PIL alleged that the youth were lured with the promise of jobs in CRPF to surrender by falsely implicating them as Maois...