Six lower-rung Naxals were arrested from insurgency- hit Dantewada, police said here on Tuesday.
Acting on a specific input, the cadres were apprehended on Monday evening from the forests near Marjoom village under Katekalyan police station area when a joint team of CRPF’s 195th battalion and local police was out on a search operation, a senior police official here said.
Those arrested were identified as Pide Veko (25), Piso Kawasi (22), Payko Veko (26), Fagnu Madkami (30), Sanna Kudami (25) and Pojja Kudami (24), all active as janmilitia members of Maoists, he said.
One tiffin bomb, electric wire, Maoist bags and commodities of daily use were recovered from their possession, he said.
The six were allegedly involved in an encounter between security forces and ultras near Chikpal village on July 28 this year. Following that encounter which lasted for about an hour, security forces had arrested four Naxals and recovered a huge cache of explosives and Maoist-related materials from the spot, the official said.
However, no casualties were reported on either side in that gun battle, he added.