The District Force (DF) have arrested a Maoist carrying a cash reward of Rs8 lakh who was involved in Tadmetla incident in which 76 CRPF troopers including a District Force personnel were killed in the district. The arrested insurgent was identified as Section Commander Sukhnath alias Oyami Chaitu of banned outfit CPI (Maoist) from Keshapur village , according to Superintendent of Police (SP), Dantewada Kamlochan Kashyap. Chaitu is a Platoon number-3 Section-C Commander of South Regional Committee Battalion number-1. The insurgent has admitted that he had joined the movement in 2005 and was involved in the Tadmetla attack, he said.
The insurgent was also involved in September, 2009 attack on the personnel of Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) in village Singanmadgu under Kistaram police station limits in which 6 security personnel were killed, the SP said.This apart, the insurgent was involved in killing of eight personnel of Central Industrial Security Force deployed on duty at NMDC Kirandul and killing of two relatives of Congress leader Awadhesh Gautam in the year 2010, Kashyap said.
Chaitu was also involved in killing of eight villagers living in relief camp established after protest against Salwa Judum movement in the year 2006. In the year 2009, the insurgent killed three Commandants after attacking a police party in village Karigundam under Kistaram police station limits. Chaitu also ambushed Road Opening Party in the year 2007 in which four Special Police Officers (SPOs) were killed, the SP said.