The Kondagaon district police have been successful in arresting a hardcore Naxalite, the president of Jantana Sarkar, on whom the police had declared a reward of Rs7,000. The police also seized five loaded rifles from his possession.
Superintendent of Police Surjit Atri said on Tuesday that during patrol searching the joint team of Kondagaon district force and CRPF, with a tip off from an informer that a Naxalite was in his house in Chema village, surrounded the house, and arrested him. According to him, his name is Ghasiya alias Mangtoo son of Gundi Korram, 30, resident of village Chema under Bayanar police station. The person arrested is working as the president of a Naxalite frontal organisation in Chema called Jantana Sarkar.
During the interrogation at on the spot, he said that the Naxalite commander had given him five loaded rifles for running the organisation. On the information of the arrested Naxalite, the police seized five loaded rifles from the Rukus hill in Chema village. He said that he was admitted in the Naxalite organisation in 2008 by Mardapal lOS commander Kossa. Since then, he has been working with the Naxal area commander Mangtoo, Sutte alias Sampat, Kossa and Urmilia alias Neeti.
During the 2008 election, his team had set ablaze the vehicles of the Congress candidates in Totar village, looted the mic, fired at the polling party, bombed the police party in village Golavand in which seven personnel have been martyred. In the year 2012, he hurled bombs and fired on the police party in Totar village. He was also involved in the ransacking of a school building in Permapal, in Bayanar village.
For the arrest of the Naxalite, other than the reward money of Rs7,000, a permanent warrant has also been pending against him for nine cases in Bayanar police station and one in Kondagaon police station, the police said.