Six Maoists were arrested during separate operations carried out by security forces in Gadiras and Chintagufa police station limits of insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said on Tuesday.
During an operation carried out by a joint contingent of 195th, 230th battalion CRPF and district police near Chhotemurki village under Gadiras police station, five ultras were held, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) (Operations) Santosh Singh informed. They were identified as Madvi Deva (22), Kavasi Somu (23), Madvi Soma (25), Madvi Handa (27) all residents of Chhotemurki village and Madkam Hunga (32) of Bhusaras village.
“Deva, Soma and Handa were involved in the murder of a villager at a weekly market in Korra. likewise, Madkam Hunga was wanted in connection with planting a bomb in Bhusaras,” the ASP said.
In a separate action, a team of DRG, CoBRA and CRPF personnel nabbed a suspected man from the jungles of Minpa under Chintagufa police station limits. A muzzle gun was also seized from his possession who was later identified as Hemla Jaggu (22) resident of Bhapad, Kistaram, he said.
According to Singh, Jaggu was part of the Naxal team that had attacked a police party in Chintagufa during lok Shabha election wherein three jawans had martyred and five were injured.
Jaggu was later on produced in a local court that sent him to jail on judicial remand, the ASP said.