Securitymen at Kumandih forests in Latehar on Sunday. (PTI)

Ranchi, July 8: The momentum to hunt 40 acres for permanent CRPF battalion headquarters in Dumka, where rebels orchestrated a gun attack on a convoy on July 2 that killed Pakur SP and five constables, has picked up after central security adviser K. Vijay Kumar visited the ambush site yesterday.

A temporary garrison for security crack teams at village Koraiya, 5km from Dumka headquarters, will come up on nine acres in a couple of months, it has also been decided.

Kumar, formerly CRPF director-general, and more recently, one of the two advisers of governor Syed Ahmed before he was called back to New Delhi, visited Dumka yesterday afternoon and went straight to inspect the site at Kathikund.

Later, with additional director general of police (Ranchi headquarters) S.N. Pradhan, Santhal Pargana commissioner A.K. Mishra and inspector-general (IG) Arun Oraon, Kumar held talks on increasing CRPF presence in the area.

“We are in the process of locating a 40-acre plot for CRPF in a Naxalite stronghold,” Santhal Pargana commissioner Mishra confirmed.

Santhal Pargana commissionary IG Oraon, with six districts of Dumka, Pakur, Sahebganj, Godda, Deoghar and Jamtara under his jurisdiction, added they had informed Dumka deputy commissioner Harsh Mangla about their land requirement.

“We have asked Mangla to submit a detailed proposal to the state home department and CRPF,” he added.

Oraon added they had also identified four acres at village Koraiya for a security garrison where forces “which come temporarily for operational purposes can be put up”. “We are eyeing five more acres for the garrison,” said the IG.

After the daylight July 2 massacre in Dumka’s Kathikund forests left Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar and five constables dead, CRPF, Indian Reserve Battalion and Jharkhand Armed Police are combing the area.Rebel presence in Santhal Pargana witnessed an upsurge in recent years with greenfield industries (read Panem) and policemen being the soft targets.