The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one wanted female Maoist cadre in the 2021 Bijapur encounter case in which 22 police personnel were killed and 30 others were injured.
The case relates to an attack by armed members of CPI (Maoist) on a police party and security force personnel near Tekalgudiyam village under Tarrem police station in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
The case was initially registered by Tarrem Police Station of Bijapur district as FIR No. 0/2021 and was later re-registered by NIA on June 5, 2021.
“During investigations, an input was received that one wanted female Maoist was hiding in the Bhopalpatnam area of Bijapur district. Immediately, an NIA team from Raipur was mobilized and deployed on the operation in which the wanted female Maoist was successfully apprehended,” the NIA said in a statement.
The arrested accused Madkam Ungi alias Kamla of Muthamadgu village under Pamed police station in Bijapur was produced before the NIA Special Court in Jagdalpur. Further investigations in this case are in progress, it added.
