Three suspected Naxals, wanted in connection with attack on a police party, were arrested during an anti-Naxal operation carried out by security forces in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said here on Thursday.
“A joint team of 227 battalion CRPF, and district police had launched an area domination exercise from Tongpal police station limits about 400 km south of state capital Raipur and nabbed the three from a forested patch between Uplanka and Junapani villages,” a local police officer said.
They were identified as Kawasi Aaytu (27) (Maoist Panchayat Committee President), Podiyam Hidma (26) and Madkami Deva (25) both Janmilita members, police said while adding they were all residents of Tongpal Sukma.
They were involved in an IED blast which happened on February 2 this year at village Marjum in Tongpal police station limits wherein a police jawan was injured, police claimed.