A joint team of the District Force (DF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) arrested four insurgents from three locations of restive Bijapur district on Wednesday.
The arrested insurgents were identified as lakshman lekam alias lacchu (32) of Schoolpara Santoshpur, Madakam Sukku (26) of Ghumra, Kurasam Ramaiya (20) of Ragaiguda Avapalli area, and Kekkam Maraiyya alias Mara (36) of Chhte Punnur, according to Bijapur Superintendent of Police (SP) K l Dhruva
He said that the joint team left from Bijapur Reserve Centre to conduct anti-insurgency operations in villages Santoshpur and Bhogamguda on Tuesday. At around noon time, a group of insurgents suddenly opened fire on the security forces in the hilly tract of Santoshpur. The security forces returned fire which made the insurgents run into thick jungles.
Immediately after the gun battle, the team launched a search operation in the area and arrested the insurgents. A muzzle gun was seized from Naxal Madakam Sukku, he said. On Wednesday morning, another team of District Force and CRPF left for area domination exercise when they nabbed Kursam Santosh, a member of Bhopalpatnam Jan Militia with a tiffin bomb, three-meter long electric wire, switch and a detonator.
In another incident, Maoist Kekkam Maraiyya was arrested from Chhote Punnur area. Police had issued a permanent arrest warrant against the insurgent for murder, abduction, insurrection and two other criminal activities.