A senior Naxal leader was arrested from a weekly market of insurgency-hit Kondagaon district, police claimed on Saturday. According to police, a team of District Reserve Group and district police had started from Dhanora police on an anti-Naxal operation. “Based on specific information received, the police team reached a weekly market in Dhanora police station,” Superintendent of Police Kondagaon Santosh Singh said. While searching the market, police rounded up Ghasia Ram Netam, who had tried to run away after seeing the police, the SP said. Netam (26) is a resident of Chikpal, Kadenar, Kondagaon. A dagger, Naxal banner posters, medicines and other items of daily use were seized from his possession, he added. A member of Kiskod area committee of the Naxals, Ghasia Ram had reached weekly market to procure daily use items for Naxal as well as to do recce of security forces, the SP mentioned.