The district police here on Tuesday claimed a major success when they arrested a cop-turned-Maoist about nine months after he joined the left wing extremists, officials said.
In yet another success police also managed to nab another accused who had escaped from Dantewada jail.
The nabbed cop-turned Naxal Korsa Joga was working as a constable at Jagargunda police station. Joga fled from a training camp held at Jagargunda on February 6 with a SlR rifle, a magazine and sixty rounds of bullets.
Police had registered case against him under arms act and declared him as an absconder. After joining the Maoist, Joga was spreading terror in the regions. He was also accused of playing a role in the killing of sarapanch at Kunded village onAug 9.
During interrogation Joga confessed to the crimes. Police produced him before the chief judicial magistrate at Sukma from where he was remanded to judicial custody.
In second incident, police arrested a criminal named as Dhenuram Nag who had fled form Dantewada jail. Nag, a resident of Muria village under Tongpal police station area was arrested on the basis of intelligence inputs, officials said on Tuesday.