Seven Naxals were arrested during an anti-Naxal operation carried out by security forces in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said here on Wednesday.
“A joint team of CRPF’s elite 206 CoBRA (Commando Battalions for Resolute Action) and district force (DF) had launched a search operation in the jungles of Chintagufa police station limits about 400 km south of state capital Raipur,” a senior district police official said.
The held ultras include three members of Maoist Janmilita, three members of Maoist Dandakaranya Adivasi Majdur Kisan Sangh (DKAMS) and a president of Maoist Agriculture Committee, police said.
They were nabbed in a forested patch of Tadpara hills. They were identified as Podiyam Pojja (president of Maoist Agriculture Committee), Sodi Bhima (Janmilita member), Sodi Rama (Janmilita member), Hemla Deva (Maoist DKAMS member), Sodi Deva (Janmilita member) Podiyam Bandi (DKAMS member) and Sodi Bhima (DKAMS member), all residents of Chintagufa police station limit, police added.
The guerrillas, according to police, were wanted in connection with different Naxal incidents like attacking police party, IED explosion, arson and similar other offences.
