District police arrested some of the alleged Maoists Sunday morning enraging people of three villages who lay siege to Kirandul Thana demanding the suspects be immediately released.
According to police department sources, a joint team of district police and Chhattisgarh Armed Forces had left Kirandul Thana to conduct searching at Hiroli village.
In the forest near the Hiroli village, on seeing the police some suspicious people tried to flee from the spot but the alert police men nabbed them after a brief chase and brought all the suspects to Kirandal Thana for questioning.
After some time, around 250-300 people of three nearby villages – Hiroli, Cherpa and Madkamiras along with their sarpanches and Kotwars gheraoed the Kirandul Thana.
Adamant for their immediate release from the police custody, the villagers claimed that all the arrested people were innocent who had gone jungle to collect firewood but the police arrested them on false suspicion.
At the same time, Dantewada Superintendent of police Narendra Khare said that police arrested these people on the suspicion as they started running after seeing the police. During interrogation if they are found innocent they would be let off otherwise action would be taken against them as the norms.