A dreaded Maoist carrying a bounty of Rs 1 lakh on his head was arrested by the security forces from the Tulsi Reserve Forest under the Mathili police station in Malkangiri district on Sunday.
The arrested ultra was identified as Laxman Podiami alias Laxman Kurami, a native of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh.
Based on specific intelligence inputs regarding camping of a group of Maoists, a joint team of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF) carried out combing operations in the Tulsi Forest.
During the search, the security forces nabbed Laxman and seized one country-made gun from him.
Laxman joined the Maoist fold in 2017.
He was involved in many cases in Malkangiri district as well as Chhattisgarh including destruction of the Temurupalli gram panchayat office of and looting of government properties under the Mathili PS in 2019 and killing of a civilian named Sukumar Mandal in 2020.