Five Maoists including members of Maoist frontal organisation Dandakaranya Kisan Adivasi Majdoor Sangh (DKAMS) were arrested during a search operation carried out by security forces in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said here on Monday.
A team of 230th battalion of CRPF and district police was undertaking the search operation coming under the limits of Gadiras police station, police said.
“The contingent was on its way to Padampara Konder village and, in a forested patch before the village, when five persons after spotting the police personnel tried to run away,” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sukma, Santosh Singh said.
Police personnel chased and nabbed the suspects who were later identified as Podiyami Joga, (23) of Padampara, Kuhrami Muya (24), Kalmu Nanda (22), Rava Ganga (35) and Iddo Raju (26) all four residents of Bodko village, the Additional Superintendent of Police said.
According to him, those arrested were found to be members of DKAMS and were involved in looting laptop, bikes and other machines used in making of Aadhaar card from a group which was making Aadhaar cards in Kondre village of the district last year.