As per reports, Kanu is said to be the chief organiser of India's biggest prison break incident, intended to free the Maoist activists incarcerated therein.
[1][2][3][4] An arts graduate from Jahanabad College in 1988, Kanu joined People's War Group in 1980s, to avenge the death of his father, who was killed in a land dispute.
[1] According to Kanu, earlier, he was a member of right wing student organisation called Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, but later he was attracted towards communism.
Reportedly, Sharma was described as a class enemy of naxalites, who were involved in armed conflicts with landlords and their militia Ranvir Sena for decades, in several districts of Bihar.
[8] After February 2007, Kanu was shifted to Beur Jail, where he threatened to stage protest as due to unavailability of lawyer, the judicial procedure in his case was stalled.