Three suspected Naxals were arrested with electric detonators during a search operation carried out by security forces in the Maoist violence-hit Sukma district, police said here on Monday.
According to police, Muchki Erra (27), Madvi Deva (22), both residents of villages under Bhejji police station limits and Madvi Hidma (22), a resident of Errabore police station limits were nabbed near Kanhaiguda village.
They were arrested by a joint team of DRG and 217 battalion of CRPF who had launched the area-domination exercise from Konta police station limits about 475 km south of state capital Raipur, police said.
“Muchki was a member of Maoist DAKMS (Dandakaranya Adiwasi Kisan Majdur Sangh), while Madvi Deva and Madvi Hidma were members of Maoist Janmilita active in Kottecheru and Gerrapad regions of Sukma,” a local police officer informed.
Along with detonators, cordex wire and pencil cells were also found in their possession. All three were presented before a local court that had sent them to judicial remand, police added.