Hinduram and Sadhucharan Mahali, two Naxals, were arrested by the district police on Monday from Mosabani police station area in Ghatshila sub-division.
Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested two Naxals both members of Supai Tuddu squad of CPI-Maoist. The police have recovered a loaded pistol, two cell-phones and Naxal literatures from their possession.
Talking to the scribes, SSP Amol V Homkar said that acting on an information that some naxals are extorting levy from the contractors who are carrying out Government projects in Ghurabandha block and adjoining Mosabani block.
“We carried out an operation acting on the information and set up a special team in the areas were the development projects like road and check-dam constructions were going on. Finally, two suspected naxals were nabbed,” said Homkar.
The senior SP said that a third person, identified as Anil Kisku, had also been nabbed along with the two, but Kisku managed to escape from the police custody. He said on being searched the police recovered the loaded fire-arms, cell-phones and Naxal literatures from their possession.
The senior SP said on being questioned , Hinduram and Sadhucharan who were residents of Sudgi village and lakhtia village of Ghurabandha and Mosabani police station areas respectively, confessed that they were the members of Supai Tuddu, who is the area commander of Ghurabandha and Mosabani blocks.
The two arrested Naxals also confessed that they were collecting levy from the contractors engaged in the development work beside spreading naxalism among the villagers by motivating them for joining their outfit by means of distributing naxal pamphlets.
Homkar pointed out that they have also nabbed a villager who was suspected to be a naxal sympathiser. He said they were getting the antecedents of the villager and would arrest him only after getting it confirmed that he was also involved in the naxal activity. Homkar said the two arrested rebels would be forwarded to the judicial custody on Tuesday.
The senior SP further informed that two admitted to have collected over Rs 15 lakh as levy from the contractors working in the rebel-hit areas during the past one year.