A lower rung Naxalite was arrested in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday.
Dantewada Superintendent of Police Siddharth Tiwari said Ayata Madkam (30) was caught on Sunday by the District Reserve Guard from the jungles of Nilvaya village.
Madkam was a Dandakaranya Adivasi KIsan Majdoor Sangathan (DAKMS) member of Nilvaya Panchayat of the outlawed Maoist outfit. He was involved in several Naxalite incidents last year.