Four naxals, three of them carrying cash reward on their heads, were arrested from two separate places in insurgency-hit Dantewada, police said on Friday.
While three cadres were apprehended from Farspal police station area, another was nabbed from Aranpur police station limits, a police official here said.
“Acting on a specific input about the presence of some suspects on Faraspal-Bhairamgarh road, a joint team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and local police raided the place and rounded up the trio identified as Budhram alias Chhotu Oyam (22), Oyam Raju (35) and Punem Sukhram (28),” he said.
Budhram and Raju were active as Local Guerilla Squad (LGS) member and Janmilitia commander respectively, the official said adding that they were carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh each on their head.
The two were allegedly involved in the incidents of attacks on police teams, damaging railway tracks and planting bombs in the area, he added.
Sukhram was active as a member of Dandakarnya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan (DAKMS, a frontal outfit of Maoists) and was allegedly tasked with arranging meetings of Naxals, conducting recce for them, damaging public property, putting up pamphlets, posters and banners, he added.
In a separate operation, the cadre identified as Nanda Kunjam (25), a Maoists’ Local Organisation Squad (LOS) member, was arrested by a team of local police from the forest near Potali village, he said.
Kunjam was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, he added.