Five Naxalites, two of them linked to two murders, were arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Friday.
Three of them were caught from a forest between Kader and Japeli villages and two in the jungles of Munder village on Thursday, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Kamlochan Kashyap said.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), District Reserve Guard (DRG) and district police were involved in these operations.
The five were identified ass Kamlu Oyam (23), Manish Kalmu (26), Bijja alias Bija Kadti and Kopa Oyami, both 47 years old.
Kadti was involved in killing a former sarpanch in 2008 in Talnar village while Oyami was wanted in connection with the murder of a civilian in 2007 in Phulgatta village, Kashyap said.