The Sundergarh police on Friday arrested three People’s liberation Front of India (PlFI) activists, including an area commander.
The arrestees were identified as Bisu Bhagat (32), working as area commander of Bolva area of Jarkhand, Saju Ekka (28) and Israel Minz (30), a native of Raiboga area of Sundargarh district.
Sources said the arrestees were involved in the much-publicised Dilip Sahu extortion and murder case under the Kutra police station, during 2013, besides various other extortion cases.
Acting on a tipoff, the police team in plain cloth had waited at Gobira square, about twenty five kilometers from here, while four persons in two motor cycles were on their way towards Kuanrmunda area and the police team intercepted them.