A hardcore Naxal who was allegedly involved in killing of a police constable was arrested with a 5 kg tiffin bomb during a search operation from a village in the insurgency hit Kondagaon district. Cash reward of Rs1 lakh was also declared on his head, police said here on Sunday.
Police was in search of Badar alias Suraj Korram (30) resident of Chhote Usari for past three years. The insurgent was member of Naxal local Organising Squad (lOS) active in Mardapal region, Superintendent of Police, Kondagon, Abhishek Meena said.
We had got intelligence inputs that Suraj Korram had reached his home in Mardapal. A police squad was then immediately sent to the spot which conducted raid in Chhote Usari village and nabbed the suspected ultra, the SP said.
The guerrilla had joined the Naxal outfit in 2011 as a Janmilitaia member. later on, he was included in lOS of Naxals. On October 8 this year, Suraj along with others had attacked a police party in jungles between Ehkali and Hadeli wherein Constable Prem Prajapati had succumbed, SP Meena said.
The left wing extremist had also killed a villager in Chhote Usari village after a Jan Adalat in the month of May this year. Cases of murder, attempt to murder and similar have been registered against Suraj, he said.