Two suspected Maoists were arrested during a search operation carried out by security forces in the insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police sources said here on Friday.
“A team of district police nabbed two persons from Belchar village under Bhairamgarh police station,” Superintendent of Police (SP), Bijapur, Kl Dhruv said.
According to the police, they were identified as Ramdhar Watti (25), and Suresh Tamo (22) both residents of Belchar.
The suspects were lower cadre members of banned Naxal organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist), the SP added.
A few days back, both of them had beaten up a resident of Belchar Shivdhar Yadav while suspecting him to be police informer in a forest patch nearby.
Somehow, Yadav managed to run away and had then reported the matter to the police.
A case against duo was filed with Bhairamgarh police station limits. They were presented in a local court that sent them to jail on judicial remand, the SP mentioned.