A dreaded insurgent who was involved in several serious Naxal incidents and carried reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head, was arrested from insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said here on Saturday.
The left wing extremist (lWE) identified as Darsu Usendi (28) was nabbed by a joint team of district police and State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) on the basis of specific intelligence inputs, Superintendent of Police Kanker Jitendra Singh Meena said.
“We had information that Usendi had arrived in a weekly market at Koyalibeda. Accordingly a team was sent to the spot for arresting the ultra, which succeeded in its mission,’’ Meena told The Pioneer.
According to police Usendi, was member of military company no. 5 of Maoists active in North Bastar division, he said.
Usendi was involved in several naxal incidents including torching of vehicles engaged in mining work at Chargaon last year. He was also part of Naxal ambush attack on a police party at Shaktighat in 2013 wherein two police personnel had lost their lives. Chhattisgarh Government had declared a cash reward of `8 lakh on his head.