An insurgent has been arrested by a joint team of the CRPF and the District Force (DF) personnel with arms and explosives during a search operation near Ponjer village in Bijapur district, police said. The arrested insurgent has been identified as Ramulu Punem, according to Bijapur Superintendent of Police, K l Dhruv said.
The joint team of the CRPF and the DF had been on an area domination exercise in the forested villages on Saturday morning at Pamalwaya, Ponjer and Bhogamaguda when at Ponjer village forests they nabbed a suspect who was trying to escape, the SP said, A tiffin bomb weighing two kg, 20 meters of wire and 9.5 meters codex wire and a sharpweapon were also recovered from his possession.