An active member of Malangir Area Committee of CPI (Maoist) was arrested during a search operation of a joint police team in Dantewada district. The arrested Maoist identified as Kosa (30) son of Budhu, resident of Manjharpara under the limits of Kirandul police station was arrested by a joint police team, said Superintendent of Police (SP), Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap.
He said that Kosa was associated with the banned outfit for past 10 years and very active. Kosa was included as the member of their frontal organisation Dandkarandya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Malangir in 2012 and president of Tikanpal unit, Kashyap said.
Kosa’s main responsibility was membership drive which included holding meetings with villagers to convince them about the organisation’s ideology and plans, distribution and pasting of posters, Naxal literature and pamphlets in villages, road cutting, etc. Besides this, he also used to collect secret information about police and forwarded it to the senior cadres and also committed crimes as per instructions of the senior cadres of the organisation, the SP informed.
Police are interrogating him to draw further information. The arrests and surrenders by insurgents in past few weeks have raised the moral of police force who have intensified the anti-Naxal campaign in the district.