In separate police actions, three Naxals were arrested from Rowghat area of restive Kanker district in Bastar on Sunday, informed Superintendent of Police Kanker, RN Dash. According to the police, the arrested Naxals were identified as Ram Singh Salam, Dhan Singh and Tur Singh.
Police informed that Ram Singh Salam was arrested during a checking drive near the Rowghat police station. Salam was involved in serious criminal incidents like firing on police party in 2010.
A local court had issued a warrant against him and a case was registered against him with Rowghat police station for rioting and handling lethal weapons. He was nabbed on Saturday, the SP informed. Dash further said that a joint police party of district police and Border Security Force (BSF) had started from Rowghat police station on a searching/area domination exercise. They got intelligence inputs about presence of Naxals near Barchi village. Acting on the inputs, police was mobilised to Barchi village. After seeing police party, the duo tried to escape but were not able to give police personnel a slip, police maintained. Detailing about their criminal background Dash said, the duo were part of the Naxal team which had attacked a police party. Besides this a case of brawl and attempt to murder were also registered against them,he said.