In separate operations, Kondagaon police in Bastar region arrested three hardcore Naxals including a member of a Maoist lOS (local Operating Squad), Superintendent of Police Abhishek Meena informed here on Saturday, adding that Muzzle guns and pipe bomb were seized from their possession.
Meena informed that the arrested left wing extremists were identified as Ramnath (32) resident of Patelpara Chhote Usri, Kanglu Netam alias Sanjay (30) and Chamlu alias Suresh Sori (35) both residents of Gaurpara, Rengagondi of Bastar region.
A police team had started from Mardapal police station on search/combing operation. Based on intelligence inputs they reached jungles of Chhote Usari and nabbed a suspected person. He was identified as Ramnath. Ramnath was member Mardapal lOS and also President of Jantana Sarkar, one of the offshoots of banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) active in Chhote Usari area, police said.
Two muzzle guns and a pipe bomb were recovered on his disclosure from a jungle pocket. Ramnath had joined Naxal cadre in 2009 and was involved in different Naxal incidents.In 2012, Ramnath along with other guerrillas, had attacked a police part in the jungles of Malnar Renga wherein head constable Afzal Khan was seriously injured who later died during treatment.
In a another operation, police informed that a joint team of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) and District Force (DF) that conducted search operation in Bayanar police station limits, arrested Kanglu Netam from his house in Adanar village. He was also a member of Jantana Sarkar active in region. A muzzle gun was seized from forests of Rengagondi hills on his instance.
While the police party was returning Suresh Sori after seeing police force tried to run away but was chased and held. He too was member of Adanar Jantana Sarkar, a muzzle guns was also sized on his possession.