In separate incidents, police nabbed a suspected Maoist and recovered four Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), planted by Maoists in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Bastar, police said here on Friday.
“In the month of July this year, a group of Maoists led by Naxal RPC President of Kotemeta in Bijapur had reached the house of a villager living in the limits of Jangla Police Station. While accusing them of helping the police, the Naxals had beaten up the villager,” Superintendent of Police (SP), Bijapur Kl Dhruv said.
later on, a case in this connection was registered with Jangla police station limit, he added.
Police was looking for Budhram Podiyam (27) since then, the SP said while adding that based on specific information he was arrested from Katenar by Jangla police.
Meanwhile, a joint team of CRPF’s 217 battalion and District Force recovered the explosives coming under Maraiguda police station limits while conducting patrolling to ensure security for workers at under construction Maraiguda-Golapalli road, police said.
About 6 kms away from Maraiguda at around 11.20 pm, they spotted the first explosive placed in a steel container hidden beneath the earth in the forests about 20 meters deep inside the under-construction road. Subsequently, three more IEDs were recovered close to the spot, police informed.
According to the police, the explosives weighed between 5 to 10 kgs and were immediately destroyed by the bomb disposal squad at the spot.