nPolice arrested a hardcore Naxal, who carried a cash award of Rs 1 lakh on his head in Sukma, while in another incident five IEDs were defused in Kondagaon.
In Sukma, a joint team of 227 CRPF battalion and district police while on a search operation, received intelligence input from Tongpal police station about the presence of Maoists in a hilly terrain near Junglepara, Marjum village.
The team swung into action and nabbed the Maoist identified as Mahavir Nag (25), a resident of Junglepara Marjum.
“Mahavir was a member of Maoist Katekalyan LGS (Local Guerrilla Squad) and was involved in an attack on a police party in April 2016 in Tongpal where a jawan was killed and another was injured,” a local police officer said.
State government had declared a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest, the officer said.
In Kondagaon, according to police, five IEDs (improvised explosive device) each weighing 10 kg and packed in pressure cookers were unearthed from a dirt track near a well between Uparchandeli and Khalichandeli villages under Keshkal police station. They were detected and defused by a joint team of security forces carrying out a de-mining operation.
Acting on specific inputs, the operation was carried out by the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and local police in Uparchandeli and Khalichandeli area, located around 250 km away from the state capital Raipur.
