A suspected Naxal was arrested during a search operation from a forested patch under the limits of Koilibeda police station, police said on Sunday.
According to the police, the suspect was identified as Ramdas Vadde (25) resident of Gontul village of the insurgency hit Kanker district. A joint team of BSF and district police that had started on a search operation from Koilibeda police station on May 29, made the arrest.
While conducting searching in the jungles of Marram village, the suspect after spotting the police personnel tried to run away. He was then chased and held, police claimed.
later, during cross-examination he accepted of being attached with ‘Chetna Natak Mandali (CNM)’ one of the offshoots of banned organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist).
He was also involved in handling explosives, police claimed. later on, Ramdas Vadde was presented in a local court who sent him to jail on a judicial remand, police said.